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2 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1895 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S152 |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green; Costa Rica national coat of arms as central vignette framed by intricate lathe-work guilloche panels, with large numeral 2 repeated on each flank within ornate rosette borders. Bank name BANCO DE COSTA RICA arches above and COSTA RICA below the arms. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE COSTA RICA |
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Banco de Costa Rica was a private commercial bank operating under government concession, not a central bank — Costa Rica wouldn't establish a true central bank until 1950. These peso-denominated notes were issued during the country's transitional monetary period before the colón fully displaced the peso, a conversion fixed at 2 pesos to 1 colón under the 1896 monetary reform. This note predates that shift by roughly a year.
American Bank Note Company held a near-monopoly on Latin American currency printing at this period, and the S-prefix in the Pick reference reflects its private bank status — technically an obligation of the institution rather than the state, though in practice the distinction mattered little to users.