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100 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Internacional de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1933-1935 |
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| Printer | Waterlow & Sons Limited, United Kingdom (1810-1961) |
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| Obverse lettering | 100 BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE COSTA RICA EL BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE COSTA RICA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR LA CANTIDAD DE CIEN COLONES EN MONEDA DE ORO ACUÑADA Acuerdo No. 317 SAN JOSÉ, 31 de Julio de 1933. EL MINISTRO DE HACIENDA EL SUBDIRECTOR WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED, LONDRES. (Translation: International Bank of Costa Rica. The International Bank of Costa Rica will pay the bearer the amount of one hundred colones, in minted gold coin. Agreement no. 317. San Jose, July 31, 1933. The Finance Minister. The Assistant Director. Waterlow & Sons, Limited, London.) |
| Reverse description | Red intaglio print. A vignette of the Main Post Office Building in San José occupies the right portion of the note, with the denomination numeral at left. The composition is framed by guilloche borders and repeated value inscriptions. |
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The Banco Internacional de Costa Rica was the country's de facto central bank from 1914, absorbing the note-issuing functions that private banks had previously held. By 1933, Costa Rica was deep in the Great Depression's grip, and the 100 Colones denomination would have seen limited day-to-day use — it was a substantial sum relative to average wages of the period.
Waterlow & Sons produced the series, and their work for Latin American issuers during the 1930s was generally of high intaglio quality. The same London firm was simultaneously printing for several other Central and South American central banks, which occasionally led to shared plate architecture across different national issues.
The Banco Internacional was dissolved in 1936 when the Banco Nacional de Costa Rica superseded it, making this a terminal series with a short window of legitimate issue.