Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional |
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| Year | 1899 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in brown ink, bears a bold overprint stamp identifying the note as provisional Banco Nacional circulation currency under government decree, with the date 1899. The central design retains the guilloche-framed numeral '10' flanked by 'DIEZ' and 'PESOS', enclosed within an ornate rectangular border of interlocking guilloche patterns. A manuscript signature line for the Junta de Emisión members appears across the centre, with the printed legend 'MIEMBROS DE LA JUNTA DE EMISIÓN' and an overprint text block at the upper portion. |
| Reverse lettering | ESTE BILLETE CIRCULA PROVISIONALMENTE COMO BILLETE DEL BANCO NACIONAL CON ARREGLO AL DECRETO No. DIEZ PESOS MIEMBROS DE LA JUNTA DE EMISIÓN BANCO DE BOGOTÁ |
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The Compañía Colombiana de Billetes de Banco was a short-lived printing enterprise established with American capital specifically to produce notes for Colombian institutions, operating out of Washington D.C. in the late 1890s. That arrangement was unusual — most Colombian issues of the period went to established European security printers, particularly in London and Paris.
The Banco Nacional itself was dissolved by 1900, when Colombia moved to suppress private and semi-official note-issuing banks in favor of centralized monetary control. This note was current for a narrow window, and the bank's liquidation cut short what would otherwise have been a longer series.