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10 Pesos Oro Legal
| Issuer | Banco de Caldas |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black with orange and green guilloche underprints. At centre, an intaglio portrait vignette of a young man in period dress occupies the focal point, flanked by large numeral 10 denominators on either side. The bank title EL BANCO DE CALDAS appears in bold letterpress across the upper field, with the serial number panels printed in red above. The lower portion carries the promise-to-pay text DIEZ PESOS ORO LEGAL in ornate lettering, with place of issue MANIZALES (COLOMBIA) noted at right and the imprint of the American Bank Note Company along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in orange-brown ink on a dense guilloche background. The bank name BANCO DE CALDAS is set in two lines across the upper centre within an ornate frame, flanked by large numeral 10 panels at left and right. A central cartouche encloses the CONDICIONES text in small letterpress, detailing the terms of the mortgage-backed obligation, with SECCIÓN HIPOTECARIA inscribed below. The American Bank Note Company imprint appears in the lower margin. |
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Banco de Caldas was a regional Colombian bank operating out of Manizales, and its note issues from this period reflect the fragmented, department-level banking that persisted in Colombia well into the early twentieth century. The American Bank Note Company handled most of Colombia's serious regional currency printing at this time — the ABNC's New York plant was effectively the default printer for Colombian issuers who wanted engraved intaglio work they couldn't source domestically.
Pick 329 is scarce. Caldas department was coffee country, and the regional banks that served it were absorbed or wound down as Colombia's 1923 Kemmerer Mission reforms consolidated the banking system under the newly established Banco de la República.