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10 000 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Central de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 2019-2022 |
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| Value | 10 000 Colones 10 000 CRC = EUR 19 |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted polymer substrate with a transparent window bearing a security strip at right. Central vignette of José Figueres Ferrer in portrait, with a background vignette of the historic scene of him abolishing the Costa Rican Army. Color-shifting ink outline of Costa Rica at left. |
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| Protection type | Transparent window, Security thread, Color-shifting ink |
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Costa Rica's shift to polymer began with this denomination, which entered circulation in 2019 as part of a broader effort to reduce counterfeiting losses on high-value notes. The substrate is produced by Note Printing Australia's Guardian polymer technology — standard now for many Latin American issuers, though Costa Rica came to it later than neighbors like Mexico. Orell Füssli, a Zürich printer with an unbroken run dating to the sixteenth century, handled production; their work on polymer has been more limited than their deep history in intaglio security printing on paper.