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100 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Central de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1992 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a central vignette of the Corte Suprema de Justicia (Supreme Court of Justice) building in San José, rendered in fine intaglio line work against a light background. Large guilloche rosette patterns in brown and olive flank both sides of the central architectural vignette, with the denomination numeral '100' at lower right. The bank title 'BANCO CENTRAL DE COSTA RICA' is printed along the bottom, and the inscription 'CORTE SUPREMA DE JUSTICIA' appears to the right of the building. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE COSTA RICA CIEN COLONES 100 CORTE SUPREMA DE JUSTICIA CASA DA MOEDA DO BRASIL |
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Casa da Moeda do Brasil printed several Central American issues during the 1980s and 1990s, a period when Costa Rica — managing debt restructuring and the aftereffects of the regional economic crisis of the early 1980s — was sourcing printing contracts pragmatically rather than habitually. The Brazilian security printer was a logical choice: competitive, technically capable, and geographically closer than the European houses.
P#258 belongs to a colones series that ran through multiple signature combinations; the specific signatures on any given example help narrow the issuing period within the type's run.