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4 Reales / 50 Centavos
| Issuer | Colombia |
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| Year | 1819-1820 |
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| Currency | Peso pre-decimal (1810-1847) |
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| Obverse lettering | QUATRO REALES A Su presentacion la Cantidad de QUATRO 50 REALES. P. Maverick, New York (Translation: Four Reales / At its presentation, the amount of / Four Reales) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse with no typeset or engraved design elements, bearing multiple handwritten manuscript signatures applied in brown ink. |
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Among the earliest paper emissions tied to the Gran Colombian independence struggle, this note was printed by Peter Maverick in New York — a significant detail. Maverick was a well-regarded engraver and printer who worked for several newly independent Latin American governments during this period, supplying printed material that the nascent republics lacked the infrastructure to produce themselves.
The dual denomination — 4 Reales and 50 Centavos — reflects the transitional monetary arithmetic of a government simultaneously inheriting Spanish colonial units and reaching toward a decimalized future.