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1000 Colones 50 Aniversario BCCR
| Issuer | Banco Central de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1998 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of economist Tomás Soley Güell at left, set against a red guilloche underprint with curved line geometric patterns. A telescopic serial number appears at upper right. A commemorative overprint reading "50 Aniversario BCCR" and the date "23 de Setiembre de 1998" are applied to the face of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Instituto Nacional de Seguros headquarters building rendered in intaglio, surrounded by intricate guilloche scrollwork and curved-line underprint in red on a light multicolour background. The denomination "1000" appears in large numerals at lower left and upper right, with the issuer name in full across the lower margin. The engraver's credit "François-Charles Oberthur" is printed in small text at the bottom centre. |
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Issued to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Banco Central de Costa Rica, founded in 1950 — which means the 1998 commemorative date sits two years ahead of the actual half-century. The BCCR was established by Law No. 1130, replacing the earlier system under which the Banco Nacional held central banking functions, and the anniversary was apparently calculated from an earlier organizational predecessor rather than the formal 1950 founding statute.
Oberthur Fiduciaire had a long working relationship with Costa Rica by this period. The watermark remains the sole listed security feature, modest even by late-1990s standards for a commemorative of this denomination.