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10 Córdobas Delivery Man

Issuer Banco Central de Nicaragua
Year 1999
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Currency Third Córdoba `Oro` (1991-date)
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Reverse description A mounted horseman is depicted in full profile, riding to the right across an open landscape, with two traditional milk cans suspended from the flanks of the horse — an emblematic scene representing rural Nicaraguan life within the Encounter of Two Worlds series. The silver fineness mark is positioned in the left field, the date in the right field, and the denomination along the lower exergue. The commemorative series legend arcs along the upper periphery, with a secondary descriptive legend below it, all inscribed in the Latin script.
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Reverse lettering ENCUENTRO DE DOS MUNDOS EL HOMBRE Y SU CABALLO LEY 925 1999 DIEZ CORDOBAS
(Translation: Encounter of two Worlds Man and his horse Ten Cordobas)
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Nicaragua's 1990s silver commemorative program was partly funded through foreign licensing arrangements — the designs were marketed internationally as collector pieces, with little domestic circulation intended. The "Delivery Man" subject belongs to a broader series documenting traditional Nicaraguan trades and street vendors, a project conceived during the post-Sandinista reconstruction period when the Banco Central was rebuilding institutional credibility after years of monetary chaos and the cordoba's catastrophic devaluation in the late 1980s.

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