Catalog
100 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Herediano |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Currency | Peso (1864-1896) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue and black on white paper. A seated allegorical female figure appears at the lower left in intaglio vignette style, with a second standing female figure in a similar vignette at the right margin. The central field bears the bank's title in ornate letterpress script, the denomination 100 in a bold cartouche at the upper right, the promise-to-pay legend in Spanish, and a manuscript date line reading 'Heredia' with the year 1881. Two signature lines appear at the bottom, designated 'Gerente' and 'Presidente', with the printer's imprint 'Lith. American Bank Note Co. N.Y.' at the lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a pale blue guilloche underprint on plain white paper, with the large denomination word CIEN printed in bold block letters across the centre of the note. The overall design is minimal, relying on the underprint pattern as the primary decorative element. |
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Banco Herediano was a private commercial bank chartered in Heredia, Costa Rica — one of several provincial banks operating independently before the government moved to consolidate the country's note-issuing privileges in the late 1880s and early 1890s. That consolidation effectively killed institutions like this one, making the entire Herediano series short-lived by design.
The American Bank Note Company printed this in New York, as it did for dozens of Latin American private and state banks during this period. At the 100 Pesos level, actual circulation was almost certainly limited — denominations this large rarely moved far beyond commercial transactions between merchants.