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500 Colones Series A
| Issuer | Banco Central de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1951-1977 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 500 Banco Central de Costa Rica 500 101120 SERIE A SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA 6 de mayo de 1969 ACUERDO DE LA JUNTA DIRECTIVA № 6 SERIE A 101120 500 QUINIENTOS COLONES EL PRESIDENTE DE LA JUNTA DIRECTIVA EL GERENTE DEL BANCO MANUEL MARÍA GUTIÉRREZ D D AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. (Translation: 500 Central Bank of Costa Rica 500 Series A San José, Costa Rica May 6, 1969 Agreement of the Board of Directors № 6 Series A 500 Five hundred colones The Chairman of the Board of Directors The Bank Manager Manuel María Gutiérrez) |
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| Reverse lettering | Banco Central de Costa Rica D 500 D D 500 D TEATRO NACIONAL DE COSTA RICA QUINIENTOS COLONES AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. (Translation: Central Bank of Costa Rica D 500 D D 500 D National Theatre of Costa Rica Five hundred colones) |
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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.