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500 Cordobas
| Issuer | Banco Central de Nicaragua |
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| Year | 1972 |
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| Value | 500 Córdobas |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE NICARAGUA SERIE C 500 QUINIENTOS CORDOBAS RESOLUCION DEL CONSEJO DIRECTIVO DEL BANCO CENTRAL DE NICARAGUA, DE 20 DE ABRIL DE 1972. DECRETO EXECUTIVO Nº 73 DE 27 DE ABRIL DE 1972. THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY, LIMITED (Translation: Central Bank of Nicaragua Series C 500 Five Hundred Cordobas Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Nicaragua, in April 20, 1972. Executive Decree n.73 of April 27, 1972. Thomas de la Rue & Company, Limited) |
| Reverse description | Black intaglio on multicolor guilloche underprint. At left, an architectural vignette presents the Teatro Nacional Rubén Darío, Managua's principal cultural venue, rendered in fine engraved line work against a lightly tinted background. At right, a large dark guilloche rosette encloses the numeral "500" in bold relief, surrounded by intricate lathe-work patterning in green and yellow tones. |
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Nicaragua's 1972 series was issued under the Somoza government at a moment of relative monetary stability — that calm was short-lived. The catastrophic earthquake of December 1972 devastated Managua and triggered severe economic disruption, meaning much of this high-denomination series entered circulation almost immediately into crisis conditions rather than routine banking use.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement in Nicaraguan currency printing was longstanding by this point, and the 500 Córdobas represented the top denomination in the series. High-value notes from this run are frequently encountered with heavy use precisely because the post-earthquake period accelerated cash transactions and strained the existing note supply.