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10 Pesos Overprint
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Peso decimalized (1847-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | Certificado Sobre Consignacion de Oro en la Casa de Moneda de Medellin Diez Pesos Oro Acunado Medellin a Quince de Septiembre de 1919 |
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| Reverse lettering | Republica de Colombia Departamento de Antioquia Banco de la Republica Billete Provisional (Translation: Republic of Colombia / Department of Antioquia / Bank of the Republic / Provisional Note) |
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Colombia's Banco de la República was established in July 1923, and its earliest circulating notes were not purpose-designed issues but overprinted stock — existing Banco de la República de Colombia plates adapted for the new central bank. The 10 Pesos P#353 is part of that transitional moment, when the institution was barely months old and had no time to commission fresh designs before notes needed to reach circulation.
The ABNC connection here is straightforward: the company held the intaglio plates and applied the overprint at its New York facility. Worth noting that the overprint series is considerably scarcer than the later clean issues of the same denomination.