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100 Colones provisional overprint
| Issuer | Banco Internacional de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1937-1942 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE COSTA RICA BANCO NACIONAL DE COSTA RICA EL BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE COSTA RICA DEPARTAMENTO EMISOR PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR LA CANTIDAD DE CIEN COLONES EN MONEDA DE ORO ACUÑADA Acuerdo No. 4 SAN JOSÉ, 4 de Febrero de 1942 EL MINISTRO DE HACIENDA EL DIRECTOR El Presidente, El Gerente, WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED, LONDRES. (Translation: National Bank of Costa Rica. Issuing department. 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. 4. San Jose, February 4, 1942. The Finance Minister. The Director. The President. The Manager. Waterlow & Sons, Limited, London.) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE COSTA RICA 100 100 100 CIEN COLONES 100 WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED, LONDRES (Translation: International Bank of Costa Rica. One hundred colones. Waterlow & Sons, Limited, London.) |
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The Banco Internacional de Costa Rica — later absorbed into the Banco Central in 1950 — issued these as provisional notes by overprinting existing Waterlow stock rather than commissioning a new printing. This was a cost-driven stopgap, common in Central American banking during the late 1930s when foreign exchange pressures made fresh printings harder to justify.
The five-year span of issue (1937–1942) suggests multiple overprint batches rather than a single run, and date-specific examples carry meaningfully different scarcity levels as a result.