Catalog
3 Pesos / 30 Reales Nueva Granada
| Issuer | Tesorería General de los Estados Unidos de Nueva Granada |
|---|---|
| Year | 1861-1862 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on brown-toned paper with a blue underprint, framed by a wavy-line guilloche border. Two landscape vignettes flank the central text area — an agricultural scene at left and a hilltop or fortification scene at right — with a sunburst motif and a row of stars along the upper register. A large red oval validation stamp is applied over the face of the note. The printer's imprint 'Lit. de Ayala i Medrano, Bogotá' appears in the lower-left margin. |
|---|---|
| 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 | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
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.