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5 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Internacional de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1919-1930 |
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| Currency | Colón (1896-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE COSTA RICA EL BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE COSTA RICA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR LA CANTIDAD DE CINCO COLONES EN MONEDA DE ORO ACUÑADA Acuerdo No. 37 SAN JOSÉ, 11 de Febrero de 1929 EL MINISTRO DE HACIENDA EL DIRECTOR CINCO American Bank Note Company (Translation: International Bank of Costa Rica. The International Bank of Costa Rica will pay the bearer the amount of five colones, in minted gold coin. Agreement No. 37. San Jose, February 11, 1929. The Ministry of Finance. The Director. Five.) |
| Reverse description | Olive-brown intaglio print. A large monogram "V" over the numeral 5 occupies the central guilloche medallion within an oval frame, flanked by two ornate rosette vignettes. Numeral 5 appears in each corner within fine lathe-work borders. |
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The Banco Internacional de Costa Rica was the country's state-owned central bank, established in 1914 to replace the fragmented system of private commercial issuers that had dominated Costa Rican currency since the nineteenth century. This series spans a politically turbulent stretch — the 1919 period alone saw President Federico Tinoco Granados driven from power by popular uprising and U.S. pressure, leaving the new institution to manage monetary stability through the transition.
ABNC printed the plates in New York, a standard arrangement for Central American state banks of the period that lacked domestic intaglio capacity. The Banco Internacional itself was eventually dissolved and reconstituted as the Banco Central de Costa Rica in 1950.