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New Grenada 1813 Issue

     

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Viceroy:
Benito Pérez Brito
de los Ríos Fernández
Valdelomar
21.3. 1812 - 30.5.1813



Viceroy:
Francisco Montalvo y Ambulodi
Arriola y Casabant
 Valdespino
30.5.1813 -  9.3.1818



Prez Junta Patriótica:
German Gutierrez
de Piñerez
 y Cárcamo
1810 - 181?

 

PROVINCIAS UNIDAS DE NUEVA GRANADA
United Provinces of New Granada

4.10.1812 - 12.1815 ; Printer: Unknown

 President of the Junta

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New Grenada N.1, P.UNL  1 Real 1813
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT / BACKGROUNDER

YA   We gratefully acknowledge numismatist Yezid Acosta who provided the above image and the background information below. Visit his website for in-depth information and images of Colombia coins and banknotes and other related issues.


The above 1 Real banknote is from an issue of only 300,000 notes printed in Cartagena to help finance New Grenada's struggle for independence. It was printed on regular paper and had poor acceptance among the people since gold and silver were the coins of the realm. The note was signed by the President of the Junta Patriótica in Cartagena, German Gutierrez de Piñerez y Cárcamo. It is reported to be one of only 6 known to have survived.

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Credencial Historia BRC
German Gutierrez de Piñerez
y Cárcamo was born in Mompox and died in Panama in 1816. A member of an aristocratic family, was the brother of Gabriel and Vicente Patriots Celedonio. Germán graduated as a doctor of jurisprudence and was a prosecutor, perpetual ruler and member of the Supreme Council of Cartagena in 1810. Participated in the act that declared independence in Santa Fe and in Cartagena proclaimed the absolute independence from Spain in 1811. Mompox supported the project as an independent province, changed after the equality between her and Cartagena. He was a member, with Gabriel, the so-called "radicals" opposing the "autonomy" or "regentistas" and participated, as did his brothers, at war with the militias and was in the siege of Cartagena. Several members of his family were killed during the war of independence, which is why family Bolívar called "founders and patriarchs of independence".

* This note was listed in the 2000 Colombian Currency Catalog by Pedro Pablo Hernandez, who is considered one of the top authorities on Colombian Currency (page 83 is pictured below.) The 2002 catalog by Bernardo Gonzalez White, (a LANSA member) does not go back to 1813 as it only lists notes published under the name El Banco De La Republica, the current central bank, which was created in 1923.

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Hernandez - Catalog


 Billetes del Siglo Antepasado,
 1813-1915 (Official)
  by Pedro Pablo Hernandez