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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la Unión |
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| Year | 1886-1889 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a coastal cliff landscape set within a semi-circular guilloche frame, flanked by two ornate medallions bearing the numeral 10. The heading reads COSTA RICA and EL BANCO DE LA UNION in bold letterpress across the top, with DIEZ PESOS in large guilloche underprint at left and right margins. |
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| Variants | P#S224s - Specimen |
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Banco de la Unión was a short-lived Colombian commercial bank, chartered in 1881 and eventually absorbed into the national banking consolidations of the early 1890s. This note falls within the bank's final active years, a period when Colombian private banking was already under increasing pressure from Bogotá's monetary centralization efforts — pressure that would culminate in the Banco Nacional's monopoly on note issue by 1894.
ABNC printed for dozens of Latin American private banks during this period, producing plates that were often shared, repurposed, or slightly modified between clients. Worth examining the vignette borders closely for recycled elements.