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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Pamplona |
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| Year | 1884 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE PAMPLONA Serie C. pagará al portador á la vista DIEZ PESOS Pamplona El 2o Director El Director Gerente El 3a Director |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE PAMPLONA DIEZ PESOS DIEZ PESOS 10 |
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Banco de Pamplona was one of Colombia's short-lived regional private banks, chartered under the 1865 banking law that briefly encouraged decentralized note issuance before the government systematically dismantled private banking privileges through the 1880s and 1890s. This note falls squarely in that final window — by 1884 the political winds had already shifted, and most regional banks were operating on borrowed time.
Pamplona itself, in Norte de Santander near the Venezuelan border, was a commercial backwater compared to Bogotá or Medellín. Notes from this issuer rarely surface, likely reflecting both low original print runs and high attrition in a region with limited banking infrastructure.