25 Pesos

Costa Rica's Ministerio de Hacienda y Guerra — the combined Finance and War ministry — issued currency directly rather than through a chartered bank, a structural arrangement that reflected the country's shallow financial infrastructure in the 1860s. Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. had by this point established themselves as one of London's most reliable security printers, with a client list spanning multiple Latin American governments simultaneously.

The Pick 105 series is genuinely rare. Few examples are known to have survived, almost certainly because the notes were issued in limited quantities and the period saw considerable political instability in Costa Rica during the mid-1860s.