10 Pesos Estado soberano de Cundinamarca

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.