10 Colones Series B

Thomas De La Rue held the Costa Rican printing contract through most of the mid-twentieth century, and this Series B issue sits squarely in that long relationship. The Banco Central de Costa Rica was established only in 1950, replacing the older Banco Nacional as the sole note-issuing authority — this note belongs to the relatively early phase of that institution building its independent identity through successive redesigned series rather than a single settled design.

The five-year span of this issue, 1962–1967, crossed a period of moderate economic growth tied to coffee and banana export revenues, with no currency crisis to explain its replacement.