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10 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Internacional de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 10 Colones (10 CRC) |
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| Obverse description | Blue and olive intaglio print over a red guilloche underprint, with red serial numbers and black overprinted bank name, date, and signature titles. Central vignette comprises three milkmen on horseback. Denomination and bank legends frame the design. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown intaglio throughout. A right-facing portrait bust of Christopher Columbus occupies a central circular medallion set within an octagonal frame, flanked by elaborate guilloche rosettes. The numeral "10" appears to the left and the Roman numeral "X" to the right, with the bank name in a cartouche along the lower border. |
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The Banco Internacional de Costa Rica had a complicated institutional life — created in 1914 as a state-owned replacement for the private Banco de Costa Rica, it was itself absorbed into the newly formed Banco Nacional de Costa Rica in 1936. Notes bearing its name issued in 1937 were almost certainly printed prior to the merger and released as transitional stock while the new institution established its own series.
De La Rue held the Costa Rican contract through much of the early twentieth century, and the P#191 series reflects that continuity. The printing relationship predates this note by decades.