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10 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Mercantil de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1910 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S202 |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO MERCANTIL DE COSTA RICA EL BANCO MERCANTIL DE COSTA RICA PAGARA AL PORTADOR A LA VISTA LA CANTIDAD DE DIEZ COLONES EN MONEDA ACUÑADA DE ORO SAN JOSÉ SÉRIE A SPECIMEN |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO MERCANTIL DE COSTA RICA 10 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
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The Banco Mercantil de Costa Rica was a private commercial bank operating under Costa Rica's free banking period, when multiple institutions held concurrent note-issuing privileges. That arrangement ended when the government progressively consolidated issuance through the early twentieth century, eventually centralizing it entirely — making surviving private bank notes like this one terminal artifacts of a system that was already being wound down when this note was printed.
ABNC produced the plates in New York under their standard intaglio process. The S-prefix in the Pick reference designates this as a private issuer note, distinct from the national government series.