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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Estado Soberano de Bolívar |
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| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on white paper. Left vignette of a seated allegorical female figure of Justice holding scales and a sword; central vignette of a steam locomotive at a station with figures and buildings. Denomination counters in ornate guilloche frames at left and right, with the issuer's name across the top and manuscript place and date at upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | ESTADO SOBERANO DE BOLÍVAR El Tesoro del Estado pagará al Portador a la vista DIEZ PESOS en latino DIEZ 10 DIEZ DIEZ X DIEZ PRESIDENTE DEL ESTADO SECRETARIO-GENERAL 10 DIEZ HAMILTON BANK NOTE ENG. & PTG. CO. NEW YORK DIEZ 10 |
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The Estado Soberano de Bolívar was one of nine sovereign states established under Colombia's 1863 Rionegro Constitution, which granted individual states the right to issue their own currency — an arrangement that produced a chaotic proliferation of regional paper money with no federal backing and wildly uneven public trust. Hamilton Bank Note Engraving & Printing Co. in New York handled a significant share of this Latin American regional work in the period, supplying intaglio-printed notes to issuers who lacked domestic printing infrastructure.
The Rionegro federal structure collapsed in 1886 with the new centralist constitution, at which point all sovereign state currencies were formally suppressed.