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The Tesorería General de Guerra — the war treasury — was not a bank. It was a wartime fiscal instrument of the federal government during the conflicts that plagued the early Colombian republic, and notes issued under its authority were emergency obligations backed by nothing more than the promise of a state that was itself contested. The 1863 date places this squarely within the constitutional reorganization that created the United States of Colombia, a loose federal structure that would survive only until 1886.

Pick 75 is poorly documented in most reference literature, with surviving examples extremely rare. Attribution and authentication require careful scrutiny of paper stock and handwritten elements.