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10 Pesos
| Issuer | República de Colombia (Tesoro Nacional) |
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| Year | 1904 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown intaglio print on cream paper. A left-facing portrait vignette of Simón Bolívar in military uniform occupies the left portion of the note, set within an oval frame. The centre carries the bold legend REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA above BILLETE POR VALOR DE / DIEZ PESOS, with the date Bogotá, Abril de 1904 below, flanked by guilloche ornaments and the national coat of arms to the right. Two manuscript signatures of the Minister of Finance and the Treasurer appear across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | DIEZ PESOS REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA 10 DIEZ |
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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.