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2 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Internacional de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1918-1931 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company, United States |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE COSTA RICA EL BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE COSTA RICA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR LA CANTIDAD DE DOS COLONES EN MONEDA ACUÑADA DE ORO SAN JOSÉ, Acuerdo No. 110 24 de Mayo de 1923 EL MINISTRO DE HACIENDA EL DIRECTOR AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. (Translation: International Bank of Costa Rica. The International Bank of Costa Rica will pay the bearer the sum of two colones in minted gold coin. Agreement No. 110. May 24, 1923. The Finance Ministry. The Director.) |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 DOS COLONES BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE COSTA RICA AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. (Translation: Two colones. International Bank of Costa Rica.) |
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The Banco Internacional de Costa Rica was established in 1914 as a state institution following the government's absorption of the struggling Banco de Costa Rica — itself a reorganized remnant of earlier private banking failures. By the time this note entered circulation, the Banco Internacional held a dominant role in Costa Rican monetary affairs, issuing currency under government authority rather than as a private commercial enterprise.
American Bank Note Company produced the plates in New York, as they did for much of Central American paper currency in this period. The long issue window — spanning over a decade — means date varieties exist, and earlier-dated examples within the P#159 series tend to surface less frequently than those from the late 1920s runs.