500 Colones 50 Aniversario BCCR

The 1994 commemorative 500 Colones was issued to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Banco Central de Costa Rica, established in 1950 — which makes the "50 Aniversario" framing slightly awkward, since the bank was only 44 years old in 1994. The date almost certainly refers to the 1944 founding of its predecessor institution, the Banco Nacional de Costa Rica's central banking functions, or possibly to enabling legislation that predated the bank's formal constitution.

Thomas De La Rue's involvement in Central American note production during this period was routine, but the commemorative series was short-lived and not reissued.