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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco del Cauca |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note carries the bold bank title EL BANCO DEL CAUCA, with the promise PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR A LA VISTA immediately below, all in crisp letterpress. At left, a finely engraved allegorical female figure in classical dress is seated amid agricultural implements and a plow, while at right an oval portrait vignette presents a uniformed military figure in intaglio engraving. The denomination DIEZ PESOS appears in guilloche panels flanking a central numeral 10 counter, with the issue place Cali and date entered in manuscript, and three manuscript signature lines below for PRESIDENTE DE LA DIRECCIÓN, GERENTE, and INSPECTOR. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DEL CAUCA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR A LA VISTA DIEZ PESOS DIEZ 10 Cali PRESIDENTE DE LA DIRECCIÓN GERENTE INSPECTOR |
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The Banco del Cauca was one of several regional Colombian banks chartered under the 1870s free banking legislation, which allowed individual states under the Rionegro Constitution to authorize their own note-issuing institutions. The Cauca region, commercially linked more closely to the Pacific coast trade routes than to Bogotá, operated with considerable monetary autonomy during this period.
ABNC produced notes for dozens of Latin American clients simultaneously in the early 1880s, and the S360 series likely shares plate infrastructure with other Colombian regional issues of the period. Worth checking whether the serial numbering system matches the contemporaneous Banco de Bogotá contracts — overlapping ABNC production runs of this era sometimes did.