Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Confederación Granadina / Estado de Santander, Treasury |
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| Year | 1859 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a handwritten cancellation inscription in period script, recording the names of the tax collectors who accepted the note in payment of the fifty per cent tax obligation, with the place Cerrito and date 11 de febrero de 1860 noted below. The cancellation is countersigned by the Recaudador with a flourished manuscript signature, and a brief numerical notation appears at the lower centre. |
| Reverse lettering | Queda amortizada por haberse admitido a los Señores Euripides Higueros, Domingo Carvajal Calderon, i Pilar Pinto en pago del cincuenta por ciento del Impuesto. Cerrito 11 de febrero de 1860 El Recaudador Polmuno Barroja |
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The Confederación Granadina was Colombia's federal constitutional arrangement from 1858 to 1863, a brief and fractious experiment that gave individual states considerable fiscal autonomy — including the right to issue their own paper currency. Santander's treasury notes were among the more locally produced emissions of this period, printed in Bucaramanga rather than sent abroad to established security printers, which shows in the relatively modest typography.
The confederation collapsed into the Rionegro civil war and was replaced by the United States of Colombia in 1863. Notes from this interlude are genuinely scarce survivors of a political arrangement that lasted less than five years.