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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia |
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| Year | 1895 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on white paper with a fine guilloche underprint. At left, a standing allegorical female figure holding a shield and laurel branch serves as the primary vignette, with the denomination numeral '10' below. At center, a portrait vignette of Simón Bolívar is framed by the text 'DIEZ PESOS' and the promise-to-pay legend, with the issuing bank name 'BANCO NACIONAL' running vertically along the left border and 'REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA' across the top. At right, a small circular vignette with an eagle and the denomination '10' appears within an ornate frame, with serial number panels flanking the central vignette at lower left and right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in rose-red and displays an elaborate all-over guilloche lattice pattern covering the entire surface, with large denomination numerals '10' in ornate frames at left and right. A central rectangular panel bears manuscript signatures and a circular bank stamp, while the legend 'REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA' appears in bold letterpress along the lower border. |
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The Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia had a troubled existence — Congress repeatedly voted to liquidate it, and it was finally dissolved in 1894, leaving a final series of notes to circulate well into the following years under emergency authorization. This 10 Pesos issue from 1895 falls into that awkward terminal phase, printed by ABNC in New York against a backdrop of institutional collapse rather than normal banking operations.
Colombia's devastating Thousand Days War was still five years off, but the monetary instability that helped cause it was already visible in issues like this one.