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10 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1941-1963 |
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| Currency | Peso decimalized (1847-date) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green, the reverse centres on a vignette of Lady Liberty within a circular guilloche border with inscriptions running along its perimeter, flanked on either side by large bold numerals 10. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA DIEZ PESOS ORO |
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The Banco de la República was established in 1923 under conditions imposed by the Kemmerer Mission, the U.S. financial advisory team that restructured monetary systems across several Andean nations in the 1920s. The long print run for this series — spanning over two decades with the same basic ABNC plate design — reflects the relative monetary stability Colombia maintained through the mid-century period, unusual for the region.
ABNC's contract with Bogotá was one of their more durable Latin American arrangements. Notes from the early 1940s printings sometimes show tighter ink registration than later impressions, a consequence of plate wear accumulated over the extended run.