Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Estado Soberano de Bolívar |
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| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ESTADO SOBERANO DE BOLÍVAR El Tesoro del Estado pagará al Portador a la vista DIEZ PESOS en latino DIEZ 10 DIEZ DIEZ X DIEZ PRESIDENTE DEL ESTADO SECRETARIO-GENERAL 10 DIEZ HAMILTON BANK NOTE ENG. & PTG. CO. NEW YORK DIEZ 10 |
| Reverse description | Green intaglio print with elaborate guilloche lathe-work forming the overall design. Large numeral "10" counters at left and right within ornate frames, with "DIEZ" panels at centre left and right. A central rectangular panel bears the SPECIMEN overprint. Denomination and issuer name repeated in multiple registers across the note. |
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The Estado Soberano de Bolívar was one of nine sovereign states established under Colombia's 1863 Rionegro Constitution, which granted individual states the right to issue their own currency — an arrangement that produced a chaotic proliferation of regional paper money with no federal backing and wildly uneven public trust. Hamilton Bank Note Engraving & Printing Co. in New York handled a significant share of this Latin American regional work in the period, supplying intaglio-printed notes to issuers who lacked domestic printing infrastructure.
The Rionegro federal structure collapsed in 1886 with the new centralist constitution, at which point all sovereign state currencies were formally suppressed.