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50 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Value | 50 Colones |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE COSTA RICA DEPARTAMENTO EMISOR SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA ACUERDO DEL CONSEJO DIRECTIVO CINCUENTA COLONES SERIE F EL PRESIDENTE DE LA JUNTA DIRECTIVA GENERAL EL GERENTE GENERAL DEL BANCO |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE COSTA RICA DEPARTAMENTO EMISOR CINCUENTA COLONES 50 |
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The Banco Nacional de Costa Rica was established in 1914 as a state bank but gained a near-monopoly on note issuance only after the 1936 reforms that reorganized Costa Rican banking. By 1942 the country was formally aligned with the Allied powers following Pearl Harbor, and dollar-linked trade relationships made ABNC the natural choice for printing — the New York firm had handled Costa Rican currency contracts intermittently since the nineteenth century.
The 50 Colones was a high denomination for wartime domestic circulation, where most transactions ran well below it. Surviving examples with honest circulation wear are actually the more historically coherent pieces.