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3 Pesos / 30 Reales Nueva Granada
| Issuer | Tesorería General de los Estados Unidos de Nueva Granada |
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| Year | 1861-1862 |
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| Shape | Rectangular (hand cut) |
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| Obverse lettering | Tesorería jeneral de los Estados Unidos de Nueva Granada Vale por TRES PESOS (o sean TREINTA REALES) de recibo en todas las oficinas de recaudación y pago de la Nación. (Translation: General Treasury of the United States of New Granada Worth Three Pesos (or Thirty Reales), accepted at all national collection and payment offices.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse shows the obverse design in mirror image, visible as bleed-through from the thin paper stock, with manuscript handwritten entries including a serial number, the name Mariano Copete, a date reading 2 de Agosto de 1868, and additional manuscript notations. A large red circular official stamp is applied centrally, and multiple handwritten signatures are present, consistent with the redemption or validation practice of the period. |
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Nueva Granada's federal treasury issued this note during one of the most unstable stretches of Colombian political history — the 1861–62 period coincides almost exactly with the civil war that brought Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera to power, overthrew the conservative government, and led directly to the replacement of the Granadine Confederation with the United States of Colombia by 1863. Whether notes of this series circulated freely or were simply used for government transactions during the conflict is not fully documented.
The dual denomination — 3 Pesos and 30 Reales printed simultaneously — reflects the transitional monetary accounting of the period, when reales remained in common use alongside the peso system. Printed domestically by Ayala i Medrano rather than sent abroad to a European house, which was not always the case for Colombian fiscal paper of the era.