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10 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1953-1961 |
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| Size | 140 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Blue note with a left-side intaglio portrait vignette of Antonio Nariño in three-quarter right-facing profile, set within an oval cartouche surmounted by a full-figure allegorical vignette of Mercury. The central field carries the main inscriptions over a scenic underprint vignette of a steamboat navigating a river, flanked by palm trees on the near bank and a mountain range on the far shore. The serial number is printed in red. |
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| Variants | a. 01.01.1953 b. 01.01.1958 & 01.01.1960 c. 02.01.1961 |
| Comments |
Colombia's Banco de la República contracted Thomas De La Rue for this series during a period of significant monetary pressure — coffee export revenues were volatile through the mid-1950s, and the government leaned heavily on note issuance to manage liquidity shortfalls. The eight-year print run spanning 1953–1961 reflects ongoing demand rather than a single discrete issue, and date variants within the series carry meaningfully different circulation histories.
De La Rue's intaglio work on Colombian notes of this period is among the finer output from their London presses — worth examining under magnification.