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1000 Cordobas
| Issuer | Banco Central de Nicaragua |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Value | 1000 Córdobas |
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| Obverse description | Blue-gray intaglio print on multicolor guilloche underprint. Portrait vignette of General Augusto César Sandino at right, with three manuscript signatures of bank officials below. Issuer title and denomination inscriptions frame the design, with detailed security lettering referencing the authorizing resolutions of July and August 1984. |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue intaglio vignette on multicolor guilloche underprint, centred on a large numeral '1000' over fine rosette lacework. To the left, a detailed architectural scene of the modest adobe birthplace of Sandino in Niquinohomo, Departamento de Masaya, labelled 'CASA NATAL DE SANDINO'. Denomination numerals '1000' appear in each corner, with the issuer title across the top. |
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Nicaragua in 1984 was deep in the Contra War, with the Sandinista government facing both an armed insurgency and a U.S. trade embargo that was tightening its grip on the economy. The 1000 Córdoba denomination — high by the standards of the early revolutionary issue series — was already being outpaced by inflation that would eventually force a complete currency replacement in 1988, when the new córdoba was introduced at 1,000 old to one.
Thomas De La Rue retained the printing contract despite Nicaragua's alignment with Cuba and the Soviet bloc, a pragmatic arrangement that says more about the international banknote industry than about Cold War politics. The watermark security is modest for a De La Rue product of this period, reflecting either cost constraints on the Nicaraguan side or the understood short lifespan of the denomination.