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Green and black intaglio-printed note on a fine guilloche underprint, with a portrait vignette of Christopher Columbus in left oval medallion and the national coat of arms of Costa Rica within a circular frame at right. The denomination panel at centre reads 'UN COLÓN' within an ornate cartouche flanked by two red serial numbers, above a text certifying silver deposit at the Administración de Rentas Públicas. The lower margin bears two manuscript signatures above the titles 'El Secretario de Hacienda' and 'El Administrador Principal', with the place and date line reading 'San José de Costa Rica' and the imprint 'American Bank Note Co. New York' along the bottom border. |
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Printed entirely in dark green, the reverse is dominated by three large interlocking guilloche rosettes of fine lathe-work arranged horizontally, with ornate floral corner fillers extending to the scalloped border. At centre, a circular medallion bears the denomination panel 'UN COLÓN' on a ribbon scroll beneath the arc inscriptions 'REPÚBLICA' and 'DE COSTA RICA', with a stylised numeral '1' above. Flanking medallions at left and right repeat the numeral '1' in elaborate engine-turned surrounds, and the printer's imprint 'AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK' appears along the lower margin. |
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Costa Rica's silver certificate issues of this period were backed by metal reserves held in the Banco de Costa Rica, a government institution that had absorbed the country's collapsed private banks following the 1900 monetary crisis. The silver-certificate mechanism was an attempt to restore public confidence after years of inconvertible paper, essentially offering holders a legal claim on specie rather than a bank's word.
The American Bank Note Company held the printing contract for most Central American government paper of this era, and the Costa Rican series used their standard intaglio security printing. ABNC's work is generally consistent across this run, though the series spans four years and minor plate variations exist between early and late impressions.