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10 Pesos Oro Acuñado
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Medellín |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Peso (1819-1837) |
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| Obverse lettering | CERTIFICADO SOBRE CONSIGNACION DE ORO EN LA CASA DE MONEDA DE MEDELLÍN LA CASA DE MONEDA DE MEDELLÍN CAMBIARÁ POR ORO ACUÑADO ESTE CERTIFICADO MEDELLÍN A QUINCE DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1919 DIEZ PESOS ORO ACUÑADO 10 EL TESORERO EL SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA EL ADMINISTRADOR DE LA CASA DE MONEDA AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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| Reverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA DEPARTAMENTO DE ANTIOQUIA ARTÍCULOS 8° Y 9° DEL DECRETO 0400 EN PUERTO BERRÍO A CATORCE DE ENERO DE 1919 10 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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The Casa de Moneda de Medellín was a regional mint, not a national bank, which makes its decision to issue paper currency genuinely unusual. Colombian monetary authority in this period was fragmented — regional entities occasionally stepped into the gap left by an undercapitalized Banco de la República, which had only been formally established in 1923. This note predates that consolidation.
The American Bank Note Company contract places production firmly in New York. The denomination expressed in pesos oro acuñado — coined gold pesos — signals a deliberate anchor to metallic value at a time when Colombian paper money carried real credibility risk after the catastrophic inflation of the 1900 civil war period.