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50 Pesos
| Issuer | Estado Soberano de Cundinamarca |
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| Year | 1870 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | ESTADOS UNIDOS DE COLOMBIA ESTADO SOBERANO DE CUNDINAMARCA CINCUENTA PESOS POR $50 Bogotá, 25 de Diciembre de 1870 EL SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA EL ADMINISTRADOR GRAL. DE HACIENDA |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing the plain white cotton paper with a faint offset impression of the obverse design visible in mirror image through the sheet. A large circular cancellation punch at centre matches that of the obverse, and residual orange-red guilloche rosette offsets are discernible at left and right. |
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The Estado Soberano de Cundinamarca was one of nine sovereign states under Colombia's federalist constitution of 1863, each granted broad autonomy including the right to issue its own paper currency. That arrangement produced a fragmented monetary environment — notes issued in Cundinamarca carried no obligation beyond its own borders, and public confidence in state paper varied sharply depending on the fiscal health of the issuing government at any given moment.
Printed locally by Litografía de J. Paredes rather than sent abroad to a European house, the note reflects the practical constraints of Colombian provincial finance in this period. Paredes was among the few commercial lithographic operations then functioning in Bogotá.