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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Confederación Granadina / Estado de Santander, Treasury |
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| Year | 1859 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note within an ornamental engraved border with floral and foliate corner vignettes. The upper portion bears the issuing authority legend in bold letterpress type, with a handwritten denomination line reading 'diez pesos' in script below. Serial number and value box appear in the upper left and right corners respectively, and two manuscript signature lines at the foot identify the Secretario de Estado and the Tesorero General, with the place and date of issue handwritten in the body text. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONFEDERACION GRANADINA ESTADO DE SANTANDER Billete al portador por la suma de diez pesos Amortizable en las oficinas de recaudacion, i admisible en pago de un 50 por ciento del impuesto. Bucaramanga El Secretario de Estado El Tesorero General |
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The Confederación Granadina was Colombia's federal constitutional arrangement from 1858 to 1863, a brief and fractious experiment that gave individual states considerable fiscal autonomy — including the right to issue their own paper currency. Santander's treasury notes were among the more locally produced emissions of this period, printed in Bucaramanga rather than sent abroad to established security printers, which shows in the relatively modest typography.
The confederation collapsed into the Rionegro civil war and was replaced by the United States of Colombia in 1863. Notes from this interlude are genuinely scarce survivors of a political arrangement that lasted less than five years.