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| 表面の説明 | Black and orange intaglio on an orange guilloche underprint. At left, an oval portrait vignette of a bearded man in profile facing right is set within a decorative engraved frame; at centre, an allegorical seated female figure in a pastoral landscape with agricultural motifs occupies the primary vignette. The heading 'REPUBLICA DE COSTA RICA' arches across the top, with 'CINCUENTA COLONES ORO' to the right, 'Banco de Costa Rica' at lower left, and denomination numeral '50' in ornate guilloche cartouches at the lower corners. |
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| 表面の銘文 | REPUBLICA DE COSTA RICA CINCUENTA COLONES ORO CERTIFICADOS QUE ESTÁN DEPOSITADOS EN EL Banco de Costa Rica ADMINISTRADOR DE RENTAS PÚBLICAS CERTIFICADO DE ORO Cincuenta Colones SAN JOSÉ, ENERO 1, 1897 50 |
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The Banco de Costa Rica was a private commercial bank operating under government concession, not a central bank — Costa Rica would not establish a central bank until 1950. Notes like this one circulated alongside issues from competing concession banks, a fragmented monetary arrangement common to Central American republics of the period. The oro denomination (gold) was a contractual promise, not a literal description of convertibility that was always honored in practice.
American Bank Note Company's work for Costa Rican private banks in the 1890s is among the more technically accomplished output from their New York shop during that decade. The S-prefix Pick reference confirms private bank status.