3 Pesos = 30 Reales

Nueva Granada's federal treasury issued this note during one of the most constitutionally unstable decades in Colombian history — the 1863 Rionegro Constitution had just atomized central authority into nine sovereign states, and the national treasury was operating on improvised credit. The dual denomination, pesos alongside reales, reflects exactly that transitional moment: decimal and colonial monetary systems running in parallel because the public hadn't yet accepted one over the other.

Lit. Ayala / Medrano was a Bogotá lithographic workshop, not an international security printer, which shows in the note's vulnerability to forgery — manuscript authorization signatures and an applied seal were the primary safeguards.