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1000 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Central de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Value | 1000 Colones |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE COSTA RICA BOSQUE SECO Pitahaya (Hylocereus costaricensis) Guanacaste (Enterolobium cyclocarpum) Venado cola blanca (Odocoileus virginianus) 1000 COLONES (Translation: Central Bank of Costa Rica Dry Forest Pitahaya Guanacaste Whitetail deer 1000 Colones) |
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| Protection description | Transparent polymer window strip at right incorporating security elements; coat of arms and map outline printed in optically variable ink that shifts colour when viewed at different angles. |
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| Comments |
Costa Rica switched its high-denomination notes to Guardian® polymer beginning with the 2019-dated series — a practical response to the country's humid tropical climate, which accelerates paper note deterioration significantly faster than in temperate economies. Orell Füssli, printing continuously from Zurich since the sixteenth century, has supplied polymer substrates and security printing to numerous Latin American central banks as the regional shift away from cotton-fiber notes accelerated through the 2010s.
The transition was not without friction. Early public reception was mixed, partly due to the tactile difference and partly due to counterfeit concerns that the new security window and OVI elements were specifically designed to address.