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500 Colones Series A
| Issuer | Banco Central de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1951-1977 |
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| Size | 157 × 66 mm |
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| Obverse description | Purple on multicolour underprint, with the bank title and serial number inscribed across the top. A vignette portrait of Manuel María Gutiérrez appears at right, while the denomination in both numerals and words is positioned at left-centre alongside two signature lines. The printer's imprint runs along the lower centre, with the value rendered in Roman numerals at each lower corner. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in purple, with the bank title at top. A central vignette presents the National Theatre of Costa Rica enclosed within an ornate decorative frame, flanked at left and right by guilloche panels incorporating Roman numerals and a large numeral 500. The denomination in words and the printer's imprint appear along the lower margin. |
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The Banco Central de Costa Rica was established in 1950 as part of a sweeping nationalization of the banking sector — this 500 Colones note, the highest denomination in early BCCR circulation, was a direct instrument of that new monetary order. Series A ran for an unusually long stretch, over a quarter century, during which Costa Rica experienced significant inflationary pressure that steadily eroded the real value of what had been an imposing face amount.
ABNC's intaglio work for this series is among their more refined Latin American commissions of the early 1950s.