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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la República (Colombia) |
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| Year | 1981-1989 |
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| Currency | Peso decimalized (1847-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a cartographic depiction of the Colombian archipelago of San Andrés and Providencia, showing the islands and associated coral reefs as an outline map centered in the field. Geographic coordinates are inscribed: 13°20' N latitude and 81°22' W and 81°40' W longitudes, the latter indicating the eastern extent of the coral reef near Saint Andrés. The denomination 10 PESOS and the national name COLOMBIA appear prominently, with the full legend ISLAS DE SAN ANDRES Y PROVIDENCIA encircling the design. |
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Colombia's monetary authority had been pushing toward larger-denomination circulating coinage through the late 1970s and into the 1980s as inflation steadily eroded the peso's purchasing power — by the mid-1980s, annual inflation was running above 20%. The nickel brass alloy chosen for this type was a deliberate cost-containment decision, balancing durability against the rising commodity value of higher-nickel compositions used in earlier issues.
The series ran nine years without a design change, which itself signals something: the Banco de la República had little appetite for the expense of re-tooling dies during a decade of persistent fiscal pressure.