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20 Colones Series A
| Issuer | Banco Central de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1956 |
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| Currency | Colón (1896-date) |
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| Obverse description | Brown on multicolour underprint. Central vignette bears a portrait of Clodomiro Picado, the eminent Costa Rican scientist, set against a guilloche background with ornamental borders. Issuer name and denomination appear in intaglio lettering, with the value numeral repeated at the upper corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | Banco Central de Costa Rica 20 XX UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA VEINTE COLONES WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED (Translation: Central Bank of Costa Rica 20 XX UNIVERSITY OF COSTA RICA TWENTY COLONES WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED) |
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Waterlow & Sons printed this note just five years before the firm's collapse — the company folded in 1961 after a prolonged financial decline, ending 150 years of banknote production. Costa Rica had been a Waterlow client for decades, and the relationship terminated only because the printer did, not by any deliberate change in procurement policy.
The Series A designation on the 20 Colones places it among the earlier postwar issues from the Banco Central, which had itself only been established in 1950, replacing the older system of commercial bank currency.