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2 Colones Silver Certificate
| Issuer | Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1905-1906 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | A central vignette presents a laureated female figure, rendered in classical allegorical style. Denomination counters in elaborate guilloche latticework appear at left and right, with an overprint stamp visible on the left counter. The country name and denomination are printed across the design. |
| Reverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE COSTA RICA DOS COLONES |
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Costa Rica's early twentieth-century silver certificates were backed by specific coin reserves held by the issuing bank — a guarantee structure more common to U.S. monetary practice than Latin American banking norms of the period, reflecting the considerable North American commercial influence in the country at the time. The ABNC printed this series during a window when Costa Rica was actively trying to stabilize its currency after years of competing private bank issues had badly fragmented confidence in paper money.
Pick 145 is among the scarcer low-denomination issues from this printer-issuer relationship. Small-denomination certificates of this type circulated hard and were rarely preserved.