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50 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Central de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1950-1953 |
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| Value | 50 Colones |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE COSTA RICA BANCO NACIONAL DE COSTA RICA DEPARTAMENTO EMISOR SERIE PROVISIONAL SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA CINCUENTA COLONES EL PRESIDENTE DE LA JUNTA DIRECTIVA GENERAL EL GERENTE GENERAL DEL BANCO SERIE G |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE COSTA RICA DEPARTAMENTO EMISOR IGLESIA PARROQUIAL DE HEREDIA CINCUENTA COLONES AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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The Banco Central de Costa Rica was itself brand new when this note was issued — the institution was created by law in January 1950, replacing the older Banco Nacional system as the country's sole currency authority. These early Banco Central emissions were effectively the first notes to carry the new institution's name, and the 50 Colones denomination sat at the high end of everyday transactional use in a small economy still heavily reliant on coffee export revenues.
ABNC's engraved intaglio work on this series is among the finer examples of mid-century Latin American printing out of New York. The multicolor wet-ink registration on the 1950–53 run holds consistently well.