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Grey intaglio on a multicolour guilloche underprint; the central vignette presents a cattle herd in an open pastoral landscape enclosed within an ornate frame, with BANCO NACIONAL DE NICARAGUA / DEPARTAMENTO DE EMISIÓN arching across the upper register and MANAGUA centred below. The series date SERIE DE 1951 runs vertically along both lateral margins, while large denomination numerals 5 anchor each lower corner, and the value statement VALE POR CINCO CÓRDOBAS appears in a banner beneath the central vignette. Two columns of legal text in small letterpress fill the lower register, terminated by the printer's imprint of the American Bank Note Company. |
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| Descripción del reverso |
Printed in brown intaglio, the reverse is centred on a circular vignette of the Nicaraguan Coat of Arms — an equilateral triangle enclosing five volcanoes rising above a sea, surmounted by a Phrygian cap — encircled by the inscriptions REPÚBLICA DE NICARAGUA, DEPARTAMENTO DE EMISIÓN, and AMÉRICA CENTRAL. Two large symmetrical guilloche rosettes, each bearing the numeral 5, flank the central medallion. The denomination CINCO CÓRDOBAS appears in a decorative banner at the foot of the note, with the American Bank Note Company imprint below. |
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The Banco Nacional de Nicaragua was a hybrid institution — simultaneously the country's central bank and its largest commercial lender — a structural arrangement that persisted until the Banco Central de Nicaragua was established in 1961. Notes issued under its authority during this period carried real monetary weight precisely because there was no separate reserve institution to backstop them.
ABNC held the contract for Nicaraguan paper currency through much of the mid-twentieth century, and the P#93 series ran across nearly a decade of printings with only minor variations between dates. Collectors should pay close attention to the series letter prefixes, which differ across the 1942–1951 span and are the primary means of distinguishing individual print runs.