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3 Pesos = 30 Reales
| Issuer | Tesorería Jeneral de los Estados Unidos de Nueva Granada |
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| Year | 186x |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | TESORERÍA JENERAL DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NUEVA GRANADA Mariano Capelo |
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| Protection description | Handwritten serial number and authorising signatures on the reverse; large circular red seal applied to the reverse as an official validation mark |
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| Comments |
Nueva Granada's federal treasury issued this note during one of the most constitutionally unstable decades in Colombian history — the 1863 Rionegro Constitution had just atomized central authority into nine sovereign states, and the national treasury was operating on improvised credit. The dual denomination, pesos alongside reales, reflects exactly that transitional moment: decimal and colonial monetary systems running in parallel because the public hadn't yet accepted one over the other.
Lit. Ayala / Medrano was a Bogotá lithographic workshop, not an international security printer, which shows in the note's vulnerability to forgery — manuscript authorization signatures and an applied seal were the primary safeguards.