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10 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1953-1961 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR DIEZ PESOS ORO BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA 1° DE ENERO DE 1960 (Translation: The central bank of Colombia will pay the bearer of this note ten gold pesos Bogota, Colombia -date of issue-) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA EDIFICIO DEL BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA EN CALI BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA 10 DIEZ PESOS ORO |
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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.