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| Uitgever | Tesoro Nacional de Nicaragua |
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| Jaar | 1900 |
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| Referentie(s) | P#28 |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Black intaglio on blue and red guilloche underprint. A classical allegorical female figure, draped and seated, occupies the central vignette against a landscape background, flanked by the denomination numerals "50" in red at upper left and right. The title "REPÚBLICA DE NICARAGUA" arcs across the upper portion in bold lettering, with denomination text "CINCUENTA CENTAVOS" in ornamental cartouches below. Three manuscript signature lines appear at the bottom, attributed to El Ministro de Hacienda, El Presidente de la República, and El Tesorero General, above the printer's imprint. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | REPÚBLICA DE NICARAGUA VALE POR CINCUENTA CENTAVOS que el Tesoro Nacional recibirá en calidad de moneda de curso legal. 15 de Setiembre de 1900. Waterlow & Sons Ltd. Londres, Inglaterra (Translation: Republic of Nicaragua Value of Fifty Cents Which The Nacional Treasury will receive as legal currency. September 15, 1900. Waterlow & Sons Ltd. London, England) |
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Nicaragua's Tesoro Nacional issued this note during a period of acute monetary instability — the country had no functioning central bank, and the national treasury was effectively performing banking functions it was structurally unequipped to manage. Fractional notes like this one were a practical response to chronic coin shortages, particularly in small-denomination silver, which was being hoarded or exported faster than it could be minted.
Waterlow & Sons held the contract, printing in London — a common arrangement for Central American issuers who lacked domestic security printing infrastructure. The 1900 series predates the monetary reforms that would eventually produce the Banco Nacional de Nicaragua by over two decades.