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10 Pesos = 10 Dollars
| Issuer | Banco de la República de Colombia, Bogotá |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Steel-engraved note in blue-grey on a fine guilloche underprint, with the issuing title EL BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA, BOGOTÁ arched across the upper portion beneath the header ESTADOS UNIDOS DE COLOMBIA. A portrait vignette of George Washington occupies the lower left, while a classical allegorical female figure in helmet and armour appears in a corresponding oval vignette at the lower right. The central panel bears the denomination DIEZ PESOS / 10 DOLLARS in bold letterpress within an ornate cartouche, flanked by handwritten promise-to-pay text in Spanish and English. Corner numerals 10 repeat at each angle, and the serial number 490 appears at upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | ESTADOS UNIDOS DE COLOMBIA EL BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA BOGOTÁ DIEZ PESOS 10 DOLLARS CAJERO PRESIDENTE |
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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.