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100 Córdobas
| Issuer | Banco Central de Nicaragua |
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| Year | 1990 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue and red on multicolour underprint. A vignette of a sunrise over a cotton field occupies the left portion of the note, while a portrait of Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (Félix Rubén García y Sarmiento) appears at right. Three signature lines are present below the central design; Series A. |
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| Reverse description | Green on multicolour underprint. The coat of arms of the Republic of Nicaragua is centred within the vignette, surrounded by fine guilloche patterning. The denomination and issuing authority inscriptions appear above and below the central device. |
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Nicaragua's monetary system was in freefall by 1990. The Sandinista government had spent the decade printing córdobas to finance war against the Contras, and inflation had rendered earlier denominations worthless — the córdoba had already been redenominated once in 1988, at a rate of 1,000 old to 1 new. This note belongs to a brief transitional series issued in the final weeks of the Ortega administration before Violeta Chamorro's electoral victory in February forced yet another monetary restructuring.
Thomas De La Rue supplied the notes from London, though the timing meant many were barely in circulation before the córdoba oro replaced them later that year at a devastating conversion rate of 5 million to one.