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100 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Internacional de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1919-1931 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Black intaglio print on a dense lathe-work guilloche ground. The numeral "100" appears in large ornate lettering at centre within an oval guilloche medallion, flanked by matching value numerals at left and right, and repeated in smaller form in all four corners. |
| Reverse lettering | 100 BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE COSTA RICA AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. (Translation: International Bank of Costa Rica.) |
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The Banco Internacional de Costa Rica was a state-owned institution created in 1914 to replace the discredited Banco de Costa Rica — itself caught up in the political turbulence of the Tinoco dictatorship years. By the time this high-denomination note entered circulation, the bank had assumed a near-monopoly on government financial operations, which made 100-colón notes instruments of institutional policy as much as everyday commerce.
American Bank Note Company held the printing contract throughout this series run. ABNC's New York plant produced the intaglio work on most Central American government paper of this period, and Costa Rica was a steady client from the early twentieth century onward.
The twelve-year date span on this issue reflects reuse of the same plate stock with updated date serials rather than distinct design revisions.