Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Administración de Hacienda y Crédito (Tesoro Nacional) |
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| Year | 1853 |
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| Currency | Peso (1837-1872) |
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| Obverse description | The note is laid out in a letterpress and intaglio style typical of mid-nineteenth-century Argentine confederal issues. A central vignette at the top shows a pastoral agricultural scene with figures and a cart, flanked by two ornate numeral '10' cartouches. The lower portion carries a handwritten date and serial number, two manuscript signatures, and a small ox-cart vignette between them; the text body reads 'La Confederacion Argentina reconoce este billete por DIEZ PESOS de una onza Castellana de plata de diez dineros de ley cada una. Por la Administracion de Hacienda y Credito.' |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA ARGENTINA TESOLO NACIONAL CREDITO PUBLICO 10 Ley de La Confederacion Argentina reconoce este billete por DIEZ PESOS de una onza Castellana de plata de diez dineros de ley cada una. Por la Administracion de Hacienda y Credito. |
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The Administración de Hacienda y Crédito operated as Colombia's national treasury authority in the years following the 1850 fiscal reforms, which dismantled the colonial-era tobacco monopoly and left the government scrambling for new revenue mechanisms. Treasury notes of this period were issued against anticipated customs receipts, not banking reserves — a distinction that made them politically contentious from the outset.
PS157 is among the earliest catalogued Colombian paper obligations. Surviving examples are rare; the 1860s civil conflicts disrupted redemption entirely, and most outstanding notes were simply never honored.