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10 Pesos Oro Acuñado
| Issuer | Banco de Bogotá |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos Oro Acuñado |
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| Obverse lettering | CÉDULA HIPOTECARIA EL BANCO DE BOGOTÁ PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR DIEZ PESOS ORO ACUÑADO ESTA CÉDULA ES AMORTIZABLE POR SORTEOS ANUALES EN EL CURSO DE DIEZ AÑOS. SE PAGA EN ORO ACUÑADO. INTERÉS CUATRO POR CIENTO ANUAL. PAGADERO EL 30 DE JUNIO DE CADA AÑO. BOGOTÁ Serie Z AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY SPECIMEN |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a central intaglio vignette of a monumental statue on an ornate pedestal set within a park landscape, framed by intricate guilloche scroll-work panels. Numeral 10 counters enclosed in elaborate lathe-work ovals appear at left and right. The heading BANCO DE BOGOTÁ arches across the top with the legend ESTABLECIDO EN 1871 on a ribbon below, and the denomination DIEZ PESOS is set in a panel at the foot of the design alongside a block of text citing the legal basis of the cédula. The imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY appears at the lower margin. |
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The Banco de Bogotá was a private commercial bank, not a state institution — its notes circulated alongside those of several other private Colombian banks under a system that persisted until the Banco de la República was established in 1923 and granted the exclusive right of note issue. This 1919 note predates that consolidation by just four years, placing it in the final chapter of Colombia's era of private bank currency.
The denomination "Pesos Oro Acuñado" — coined gold pesos — was a legal distinction specifying payment in specie-equivalent value, a meaningful guarantee in a country where currency credibility was still recovering from the devastating monetary chaos of the Thousand Days' War and its paper money inflation.