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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Cartagena |
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| Year | 1900 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red-brown and dominated by a large guilloche underprint with repeated numeral 10 at center. A vertical block of text at right sets out the legal tender decree authorizing forced circulation of Banco de Cartagena notes, referencing the Secretaría de Hacienda. A manuscript signature appears across the center of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Billete de curso forzoso en este Departamento temporalmente a incorporar bajo la responsabilidad del Gobierno del Atlántico. 1900 con el contrato de 8 de marzo de 1900 entre el Gobierno y A. Millan del Despacho del Secretario de Hacienda. |
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Banco de Cartagena was one of several Colombian regional banks operating under the 1880 banking law that briefly allowed private institutions to issue their own currency. By 1900, that experiment was already collapsing — the government moved to suppress private note-issuing banks in the early 1880s, then reversed course, then moved again, leaving institutions like the Banco de Cartagena operating in genuinely uncertain legal ground by the turn of the century.
The Banco Nacional's monopoly was formally reasserted in 1904, effectively ending all such regional issues. Notes from this series surviving to today almost certainly never saw heavy port-city commerce — the timing left little room for it.