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20 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Internacional de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1937-1938 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue intaglio print on multicolour guilloche underprint with red serial numbers and black overprint bearing bank name, date, and signature titles. Central vignette shows workers cutting sugar cane in the field. Overprint converts the note from Banco Internacional to Banco Nacional de Costa Rica issue. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 BANCO NACIONAL DE COSTA RICA DEPARTAMENTO EMISOR BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE COSTA RICA EL BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE COSTA RICA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR LA CANTIDAD DE VEINTE COLONES EN MONEDA ACUÑADA DE ORO Acuerdo No. 3 10 de Marzo de 1937 EL MINISTRO DE HACIENDA EL DIRECTOR PRESIDENTE GERENTE AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY (Translation: National Bank of Costa Rica. Issuing department. International Bank of Costa Rica. The International Bank of Costa Rica will pay the bearer the amount of twenty colones, in minted gold coin. Agreement No. 3. March 10, 1937. The Ministry of Finance. The Director. President. Manager.) |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in orange, the reverse centres on an oval intaglio vignette of a classical Liberty head in right profile, laurel-wreathed, set within elaborate guilloche lacework. Denomination numeral 20 appears in each corner and flanking rosette panels, with the bank name split across the top and bottom borders. |
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