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50 Córdobas
| Issuer | National Bank of Nicaragua Incorporated (Banco Nacional de Nicaragua) |
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| Year | 1929-1939 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | NATIONAL BANK OF NICARAGUA INCORPORATED BANCO NACIONAL DE NICARAGUA SERIE DE 1929 SPECIMEN 50 VALE POR CINCUENTA CÓRDOBAS ESTE BILLETE HA SIDO EMITIDO DE CONFORMIDAD COM LA LEY DE 20 DE MARZO DE 1912 Y SUS ENMIENDAS. SERA RECIBIDO EN PAGO DE LOS DERECHOS ADUANEROS Y FISCALES Y SERÁ DE CURSO LEGAL Y OBLIGATORIO PARA EL PAGO DE DEUDAS DENTRO DE LA REPUBLICA. DE CONFORMIDAD CON LA LEY DE 20 DE MARZO DE 1912 Y SUS ENMIENDAS Y BAJO LAS CONDICIONES QUE ESAS LEYES PRESCRIBEN EL `NATIONAL BANK OF NICARAGUA INCORPORATED`. PAGARÁ A LA VISTA AL PORTADOR DE ESTE BILLETE CINCUENTA CÓRDOBAS. AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY (Translation: National Bank of Nicaragua Incorporated National Bank of Nicaragua Series 1929 Specimen 50 Worth Fifty Cordobas This note has been issued in accordance with the Law of March 20, 1912 and its amendments. It will be received in payment of customs and fiscal duties and will be legal tender and mandatory for the payment of debts within the Republic. In accordance with the Law of March 20, 1912 and its amendments and under the conditions prescribed by those laws, the National Bank of Nicaragua Incorporated will pay the bearer of this note Fifty Cordobas on demand. American Bank Note Company) |
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| Reverse lettering | NATIONAL BANK OF NICARAGUA INCORPORATED BANCO NACIONAL DE NICARAGUA REPÚBLICA DE NICARAGUA AMERICA CENTRAL CINCUENTA CÓRDOBAS 50 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY (Translation: National Bank of Nicaragua Incorporated National Bank of Nicaragua Republic of Nicaragua Central America Fifty Cordobas 50 American Bank Note Company) |
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The Banco Nacional de Nicaragua was itself a peculiar institution — chartered in 1912 under a U.S.-influenced financial reorganization and operated with significant American oversight through much of the interwar period, a direct consequence of the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty and the broader U.S. dollar diplomacy that shaped Nicaraguan fiscal policy for decades. The American Bank Note Company printing this series was not incidental; it reflected a structural dependency baked into the bank's founding arrangements.
The P#68 series ran across a notably long window for a single pick number, suggesting reissues with minimal typographic changes rather than redesigns. ABNC work from this period is generally well-executed intaglio, though Nicaragua's tropical humidity is a known enemy of paper survivability for Central American issues of this decade.