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10 Colones Banco Internacional de Costa Rica
| Issuer | Banco Internacional de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Value | 10 Colones (10 CRC) |
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| Obverse description | Red-olive underprint with the denomination numeral 10 repeated at all four corners. The central vignette, printed in blue intaglio, portrays three milkmen on horseback in a pastoral foreground scene. The note carries the issuing bank's title and value inscriptions in letterpress, with the printer's imprint of Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd. at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 10 10 X 10 BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE COSTA RICA 10 THOMAS DE LA RUE & COY LTD. LONDRES, INGLATERRA |
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The Banco Internacional de Costa Rica was the state's primary monetary institution from 1914 until it was reorganized into the Banco Nacional de Costa Rica in 1936 — meaning notes from this final year were issued by an institution already in the process of being legislated out of existence. Some 1936-dated notes circulated under the successor bank's authority before new designs were ready.
De La Rue's involvement with Costa Rican currency printing stretched back decades, and the relationship was essentially uninterrupted through multiple institutional reorganizations.