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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Estado Soberano de Cundinamarca |
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| Year | 1884 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ESTADO SOBERANO / BILLETE DEL ESTADO / DE CUNDINAMARCA ESTADOS UNIDOS DE COLOMBIA Serie C DIEZ PESOS 10 EL ESTADO DE CUNDINAMARCA reconoce a favor del portador la suma de DIEZ PESOS. Este billete es de forzosa admisión en el pago del 50% de todas las contribuciones del Estado, con excepción de las de vías de comunicación. Bogotá, 6 de mayo de 1884 EL PROCURADOR DEL ESTADO / EL SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA / EL ADMINISTRADOR GENERAL DE HACIENDA |
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| Reverse lettering | ESTADO S. DE CUNDINAMARCA 10 10 Lit. D. Paredes, Bogotá |
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The Estado Soberano de Cundinamarca was one of nine sovereign states under Colombia's 1863 Rionegro Constitution, a radically federalist arrangement that gave each state the authority to issue its own paper currency. By 1884 that system was visibly failing — the political tensions that would produce the 1885–86 War of a Thousand Days' predecessor conflicts were already building, and centralist forces under Núñez were pressing to dismantle the federation entirely. This note was issued in the final years before the 1886 Constitution abolished the sovereign states altogether.
Lithographed locally by D. Paredes in Bogotá rather than contracted to a European security printer — an unusual choice that reflects either fiscal constraint or logistical pragmatism at a moment of political instability.