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500 Córdobas
| Issuer | Banco Central de Nicaragua |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Reference(s) | P#138 |
| Obverse description | Portrait of Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío at right, rendered in intaglio against a deep olive-green and multicolor guilloche underprint. A central numeral vignette in dark olive displays '500' flanked by a geometric diamond-pattern panel in the upper centre, with the denomination '500' repeated at all four corners. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower centre, with series letter and serial number printed in black at upper and lower left. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The 1979 series was printed before the Sandinista victory in July of that year, meaning Thomas De La Rue completed this work for the Somoza-era Banco Central — yet the notes ended up circulating under the revolutionary government that followed. Nicaragua didn't have the luxury of immediately replacing its currency stock, so Sandinista-period transactions were conducted on paper ordered and produced by the regime they had just overthrown.
P#138 is among the last issues tied to that transitional overlap, before the FSLN began asserting control over currency design in the early 1980s.