Country: Colombia

 

Issuer: Banco de Oriente

 

SCWPM Catalog No.: P-S699

 

Date: 14 February 1888

 

Denomination: 10 Pesos

 

Condition: Fine, horizontal & center folds, light handling wrinkles, rough hand-cut margins. No splits, tears, or pinholes and good paper body for the grade. Purple treasury stamp on back.

 

Description: Dark green on parchment type paper, woodland scene top center with denomination to right and left. Back dark green with bank name at center. This bank was founded in 1883 and was the third largest bank operating in Colombia at the time, which would explain the large amount of notes printed. Per the Standard Catalog, a large hoard of these notes were found in the bank archives. 190mm x 125mm.