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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Republicano |
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| Year | 1899 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S813 |
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| Obverse lettering | DIEZ PESOS Núm. 15000 Serie 3.a Medellín 18 EL BANCO REPUBLICANO pagará al portador y a la vista la cantidad de DIEZ PESOS en monedas El Gerente El Cajero FUNDADO POR M.A.SANTA MARÍA & LALINDE FUNDADO POR LISANDRO M. URIBE FUNDADO POR MARIANO URIBE E HIJOS FUNDADO POR EDUARDO Y JULIAN VASQUEZ J. DIEZ 10 |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO REPUBLICANO 10 |
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Banco Republicano was a short-lived Colombian regional bank operating under the country's era of free banking — the system established by the 1880 banking law that allowed private institutions to issue their own currency. By 1899, that system was already under serious pressure; the Thousand Days War broke out that same year, and the monetary chaos that followed effectively ended private bank note issuance in Colombia within a few years.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference places this firmly in the Specialized volume's Colombia section among provincial and private issues, many of which survive only in small quantities given the political upheaval that followed almost immediately after issue.