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10 Pesos = 10 Dollars
| Issuer | Banco de la República de Colombia, Bogotá |
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| Value | 10 Pesos = 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | ESTADOS UNIDOS DE COLOMBIA EL BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA BOGOTÁ DIEZ PESOS 10 DOLLARS CAJERO PRESIDENTE |
| Reverse description | Executed in blue-grey intaglio on a plain paper ground, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate central cartouche enclosing the bold lettering DIEZ PESOS, surrounded by concentric bands of fine guilloche engine-turning and repeating geometric ornament. The denomination numeral 10 appears in large corner counters at both left and right within scalloped frames. The overall design consists entirely of lathe-work patterns without pictorial vignettes, with a printer's imprint running along the lower margin. |
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The dual-denomination title — pesos and dollars simultaneously — reflects the bimetallic and bilingual commercial reality Colombia faced in the late nineteenth century, when significant trade with the United States and Panama meant that dollar-denominated obligations had to be honored alongside domestic peso accounts. Banco de la República de Colombia was a short-lived private institution, not the central bank of the same name established in 1923, a distinction that trips up catalog users with some regularity.
The American Bank Note Company's New York workshops produced paper for dozens of Latin American private banks during this period, often from shared or lightly modified plate stock. Whether this note ever circulated widely or was largely absorbed by the banking crises of the 1890s Colombia is unclear from surviving records.