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5 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Internacional de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on white paper with red serial numbers. A standing girl holding a pineapple basket appears as a vignette at left, with a banana tree vignette at right. The note bears the issuing bank title and promise-to-pay text with date and officer titles. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in orange, the reverse is dominated by a large central guilloche medallion enclosing an ornate interlaced "V" cipher, flanked by two symmetrical lathe-work rosette vignettes each bearing the numeral 5. Numeral 5 appears in all four corners within decorative frames, and the bank title runs across the lower border. |
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The Banco Internacional de Costa Rica was established by government decree in 1914 as a state-controlled institution, effectively absorbing the note-issuing functions that had previously been fragmented across several private banks. This series, printed by the American Bank Note Company in New York, represents the earliest emissions of that new entity — placing these notes at the precise institutional moment when Costa Rica was consolidating its currency under centralized authority rather than competitive private issuance.
ABNC's intaglio work on the 1914 series is characteristically clean, and the plates show no known errors or major varieties documented for this pick number.