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2 Pesos / 20 Reales
| Issuer | Tesorería Jeneral de los Estados Unidos de Colombia |
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| Year | 1863 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio on paper with red underprint. The Colombian Arms appear as a vignette at lower left, a horse and rider vignette occupies the top center, and a portrait of Simón Bolívar is set at lower right. Typeset text gives the issuing authority and denomination value. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse with printed red letterpress text on the right side bearing the interest endorsement date and rate, accompanied by handwritten manuscript notations and two ink signatures, one of which reads Mariano Copete, along with a black oval official stamp. |
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Colombia's 1863 fiscal reorganization followed the Rionegro Constitution, which established a radically decentralized federal republic — the United States of Colombia — and required a corresponding overhaul of treasury instruments. This note, denominated in both pesos and reales simultaneously, reflects the awkward transitional moment when the decimal peso system had been officially adopted but the old real-based counting still governed everyday transactions in much of the country.
The American Bank Note Company contract for Colombian treasury paper during this period was one of their earliest sustained Latin American commissions. ABNC production from this era is identifiable by the quality of the intaglio work, though the Tesorería Jeneral series is among the more sparsely documented in surviving Colombian fiscal records.