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50 Cordobas
| Issuer | Banco Central de Nicaragua |
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| Year | 1979 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | An intaglio portrait vignette of Comandante Carlos Fonseca Amador occupies the right field, set against a guilloche underprint at centre incorporating a large numeral '50'. The legend 'BANCO CENTRAL DE NICARAGUA' runs across the top margin, with 'CINCUENTA CORDOBAS' along the lower centre, and three signature panels at the base identifying the Ministro de Finanzas, the Presidente del Banco Central de Nicaragua, and the Gerente del Banco Central de Nicaragua. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE NICARAGUA DIA DE LA LIBERACION 19 DE JULIO DE 1979 CINCUENTA CORDOBAS |
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This note was issued in 1979, the year the Sandinista revolution overthrew Somoza — a fact that complicates its status. The Banco Central continued issuing Somoza-era De La Rue printed notes into the transition period, and P#136 circulated under both the outgoing regime and the incoming revolutionary government before new Sandinista-branded issues eventually replaced the inherited stock.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement was standard for Nicaraguan issues of this period, the relationship predating the revolution by decades.