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5 Colones Series G
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Value | 5 Colones (5 CRC) |
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| Obverse description | The issuing bank name and department title appear at the top in bold letterpress. A central engraved portrait vignette of Juan Mora Fernández, first Head of State of Costa Rica, is framed by fine guilloche work, with the date and authorization text of the Consejo Directivo rendered in letterpress below. The denomination is expressed in both numeral and word form at the base, with the printer's imprint along the lower border. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE COSTA RICA DEPARTAMENTO EMISOR 5 V SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA 3 de Marzo de 1948 ACUERDO DEL CONSEJO DIRECTIVO Nº 2 EL PRESIDENTE DE LA JUNTA DIRECTIVA GENERAL EL GERENTE GENERAL DEL BANCO 5 CINCO COLONES V V AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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The Series G designation places this note in the final phase of Banco Nacional de Costa Rica's pre-reform 5 Colones issues. Costa Rica's 1948 civil war — a six-week conflict that ended with José Figueres Ferrer's provisional junta taking power — created genuine monetary uncertainty, and notes of this period circulated in a country that had just abolished its army and was reorganizing its entire banking system.
ABNC's New York plates for this series had been in use across multiple earlier series, keeping production costs down through reuse of the basic design architecture. The Series G suffix is the key identifier for dating a note to this specific transitional moment.