Catalog
5 Pesos Provisional Issue
| Issuer | Tesoro Nacional de Nicaragua |
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| Year | 1910 |
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| Reference(s) | P#41 |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress on beige guilloche underprint, with a repeated 'cinco pesos' text pattern forming the background. At center, the Nicaraguan Coat of Arms is set within an ornamental rectangular frame, encircled by a round official stamp inscribed TESORO NACIONAL REP. DE NICARAGUA. The bold denomination words CINCO and PESOS flank the central vignette at left and right respectively, with the printer's imprint at the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | CINCO PESOS TESORO NACIONAL REP. DE NICARAGUA Tip. Gutemberg - Managua (Translation: Five Pesos National Treasury Rep. of Nicaragua Tip. Gutemberg - Managua) |
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Nicaragua's Tesoro Nacional issued this provisional series in 1910 during a period of acute fiscal instability, when the government lacked both the hard currency and the time to commission notes abroad. Printing locally at the Tipografía Gutenberg in Managua was an expedient choice — the press was primarily a commercial job printer, not a security printing house, and the notes reflect that plainly in their production quality.
The "provisional" designation was not decorative. These circulated under genuine emergency conditions, and the Zelaya government had already fallen by late 1909, leaving the incoming administration to manage a currency in no better shape than the treasury itself.