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1 Peso
| Issuer | Ministerio de Hacienda y Guerra, República de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1865 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on green underprint. Coat of arms vignette at left, standing figure of Mercury at right. Text panel occupies the central field with the promise-to-pay legend and date of issue. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 UN PESO REPUBLICA DE COSTA RICA Las Administraciones de las Rentas Publicas pagarán al Portador la Suma de UN PESOS en moneda acuñada y corriente de este Pais. San José de Costa Rica, 2 de Enero de 1865 EL SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA EL ADMINISTRADOR PRINCIPAL MINISTERO DE HACIENDA Y GUERRA REPUBLICA DE COSTA RICA AMERICA CENTRAL BRADBURY, WILKINSON & Co. BANK NOTE ENGRAVERS, LONDON (Translation: One peso. Republic of Costa Rica. The Public Revenue Administrations will pay to the bearer the sum of one peso in minted and current money of this country. San José, Costa Rica, January 2nd, 1865. The Secretary of the Treasury. The Principal Administrator. Ministry of Finance and War. Republic of Costa Rica. Central America.) |
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Costa Rica's Ministerio de Hacienda y Guerra — the combined Finance and War Ministry — issued currency directly rather than through a chartered bank, a practice that reflected the country's near-total absence of formal banking infrastructure at the time. The first commercial bank, the Banco Anglo-Costarricense, would not be established until 1863, and it remained fragile; government-issued notes filled the gap.
Bradbury, Wilkinson had only recently separated from Perkins Bacon and was building its own roster of Latin American clients in the 1860s. This is among their earlier commissions from Central America.