Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Estado Soberano de Bolívar |
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| Year | 1885 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At left, a seated allegorical figure of Justice holding scales and a sword within an intaglio vignette; at centre, a detailed steam locomotive vignette in black. The text 'DIEZ PESOS' appears in large bold letters at centre, with 'El Tesoro del Estado Paga al portador' in script below the title band. |
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| Obverse lettering | ESTADO SOBERANO DE BOLÍVAR DIEZ PESOS El Tesoro del Estado Paga al portador a la vista DIEZ PESOS en Letras DIEZ X Cartagena Número |
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The Estado Soberano de Bolívar was one of nine sovereign states operating under Colombia's 1863 Rionegro Constitution, which granted each state the right to issue its own currency — a federalist experiment that collapsed almost immediately after Rafael Núñez's centralist Regeneración movement took hold. This note was issued in the final years of that federal arrangement, just before the 1886 constitution abolished the sovereign states entirely and reconstituted the country as the Republic of Colombia.
Hamilton Bank Note Engraving and Printing Co. of New York handled a number of Latin American regional issues during this period, typically working from stock vignette inventories rather than bespoke designs. The Bolívar state notes are among the rarer surviving examples of Colombian subnational paper, with most issues having been demonetized and destroyed during the political transition.