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20 Cordobas
| Issuer | Banco Central de Nicaragua |
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| Year | 1995 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of General Augusto César Sandino at left, wearing his characteristic wide-brimmed hat, with a vignette of a coffee plant branch bearing ripe berries to the right. A large intaglio numeral '20' occupies the centre, above the denomination legend 'VEINTE CORDOBAS' in a guilloche underprint panel. The bank title 'BANCO CENTRAL DE NICARAGUA' appears across the top, with the date 1995 and two signature lines of bank officials below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Portrait of Emmanuel Mongalo at lower left, rendered in fine intaglio line engraving. The central and right portions carry a large vignette of the burning Mesón de Rivas, with a figure in the foreground set against roaring flames and smoke rising above the colonial structure. The denomination '20' appears at upper corners and the legend 'VEINTE CORDOBAS' runs along the lower centre, with the printer's imprint 'FRANCOIS-CHARLES OBERTHUR' at the base. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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