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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 description | Central intaglio vignette of a seated allegorical female figure, rendered in dark engraved tones against a salmon-pink guilloche underprint, with the numeral '10' in ornate rosettes to either side. The title 'Casa de Moneda de Medellin' is inscribed in large letterpress text across the upper portion, with 'Diez Pesos Oro Acunado' appearing along the lower border above the signature line. Serial numbers are printed in black at upper left and upper right. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in orange on an overall guilloche patterned ground, the reverse carries large black letterpress overprint text reading 'Banco de la Republica / Billete Provisional' applied across the centre of the note. The Colombian national arms appear in an engraved vignette at the lower centre, flanked by the numeral '10' in guilloche medallions at left and right. The text of the overprint partially obscures the underlying printed legends of the original Casa de Moneda 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.