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100 Colones Silver certificate, 'en moneda acuñada de plata'
| Issuer | Administración de Rentas Públicas, Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Reference(s) | P#150A |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and arranged as three large guilloche lozenges of equal size disposed horizontally, each enclosing the bold numeral 100. The national coat of arms of Costa Rica occupies the central medallion, surrounded by fine engine-turned lathe work, while the denomination CIEN COLONES appears at the top within a cartouche and the issuer's name REPÚBLICA DE COSTA RICA is carried in two lines along the lower border. |
| Reverse lettering | CIEN COLONES REPÚBLICA DE COSTA RICA AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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Costa Rica's Administración de Rentas Públicas — the public revenue administration, not a central bank — issued this certificate as a direct claim on coined silver, a design rooted in the chronic distrust of unbacked paper that had plagued Central American monetary systems since the 1890s. The phrase "en moneda acuñada de plata" is a legal commitment, not decorative typography: the holder was entitled to physical silver coin on demand.
ABNC produced the plate in New York. The 1917 timing places this squarely in the period of World War I commodity pressures, when silver itself was fluctuating sharply on international markets — which made the redemption guarantee increasingly difficult to honor in practice.