3 Pesos / 30 Reales Nueva Granada

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.