Catalog
10 Córdobas
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Nicaragua |
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| Year | 1935 |
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| Value | 10 Córdobas |
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| Obverse description | Brown on purple and green underprint, with a central landscape vignette of palm trees beside a lake with a distant volcano in the background, framed by intricate guilloche borders. The bilingual bank title — in both Spanish and English — together with the denomination numeral "10" and the "SERIE DE 1935" date inscription appear within the note's body alongside the legal tender clause. The printer's imprint of Hamilton Bank Note, New York, is present in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in carmine on a dense guilloche underprint, the reverse centres on the Nicaraguan Coat of Arms — a triangle enclosing five volcanoes rising from the sea beneath a radiant sun — encircled by the legend REPÚBLICA DE NICARAGUA · AMERICA CENTRAL. Large denomination numerals "10" flank the central vignette at left and right, with "DIEZ CÓRDOBAS" in bold lettering below the arms and the bilingual bank title inscribed above. |
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The Banco Nacional de Nicaragua was itself a relatively unusual institution — incorporated in the United States under Connecticut law in 1924, with the U.S. government holding a supervisory role through the 1920s and into the 1930s as part of broader American financial intervention in Nicaragua. The 1935 series notes, including this 10 Córdobas, were produced during a transitional period as Nicaragua slowly reasserted domestic control over its banking apparatus.
Hamilton Bank Note Company handled the plate work. A smaller firm than the dominant American Banknote Company, HBNC produced quality intaglio work but operated in ABNCo's shadow — their Nicaraguan contracts represent some of their more geographically distant commissions from this decade.