100 Cordobas

Nicaragua's 1972 series was issued under the Somoza government at a moment of relative monetary stability — that stability would be shattered within months when the catastrophic December 1972 earthquake destroyed central Managua, killing thousands and destabilizing the economy for years. Notes from this issue entered circulation just before that rupture and many were lost or damaged in the disaster's aftermath.

Thomas De La Rue printed the series in London, a long-standing arrangement for Nicaraguan currency that predates the Banco Central's founding in 1961.