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10 Pesos Estado soberano de Cundinamarca
| Issuer | Estado Soberano de Cundinamarca |
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| Year | 1884 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on green guilloche underprint; the coat of arms of the United States of Colombia appears as a vignette at left, with a portrait vignette at right. Issuer and state names head the note; face value in numerals at center flanked by denomination in words, with printer imprint along the right edge. Three spaces for manuscript signatures with printed titles, issuing place, and manuscript date line with year printed. |
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| Reverse lettering | ESTADO S. DE CONDINAMARCA 10 LIT. D. PAREDES. BOGOTÁ (Translation: Sovereign State of Cundinamarca Lithography of D. Paredes, Bogotá.) |
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The Estado Soberano de Cundinamarca was one of nine sovereign states created under Colombia's 1863 Rionegro Constitution, a federalist experiment that gave each state near-total autonomy — including the right to issue its own paper currency. By 1884, that experiment was collapsing. The civil conflict known as the War of 1885 was already building, and within two years the entire federal system would be dismantled under Rafael Núñez's centralist "Regeneration" government, rendering state-issued notes obsolete almost immediately.
Litografía de D. Paredes was a Bogotá commercial printer, not a specialized security press. The technical limitations of local lithography over intaglio engraving left these notes relatively easy to counterfeit.