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10 Pesos
| Issuer | República de Colombia (Tesoro Nacional) |
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| Year | 1904 |
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| Reference(s) | P#312 |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA BILLETE POR VALOR DE DIEZ PESOS AMORTIZABLE CONFORME Á LAS LEYES Bogotá, Abril de 1904 El Ministro Del Tesoro El Tesorero General De Colombia Waterlow & Sons, Londres y Glasgow |
| Reverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper, the reverse centres on a large landscape vignette of a river scene with a stern-wheel steamboat on a broad waterway set against a mountainous background. To the left, a standing allegorical female figure in classical dress is placed within an arched architectural frame beside tropical vegetation. Denomination indicators 10 / DIEZ appear in ornamental panels at the upper right and lower right corners, with the legend DIEZ PESOS across the top and REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA along the lower border. |
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Colombia's Tesoro Nacional — the national treasury rather than a central bank — issued this note directly, a reminder that the country lacked a proper central bank until the Banco de la República was established in 1923. The 1904 date places this squarely in the wreckage left by the Thousand Days War, which ended in late 1902 after devastating the national economy and triggering a currency collapse severe enough to render most earlier paper issues worthless. Treasury-backed notes of this period were effectively emergency fiscal instruments.
Waterlow & Sons produced the plates in London — the Glasgow reference in their imprint reflects a secondary facility the firm maintained, not a separate commission.