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500 Córdobas
| Issuer | Banco Central de Nicaragua |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Value | 500 Cordobas |
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| Reverse description | Red print over a yellow underprint. To the left, a vignette of the San Jacinto Hacienda House Museum is rendered in detail; to the right, the Nicaraguan coat of arms appears as a secondary design element. Denomination and country inscriptions complete the layout. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE NICARAGUA REPUBLICA DE NICARAGUA AMERICA CENTRAL HACIENDA SAN JACINTO QUINIENTOS CORDOBAS (Translation: CENTRAL BANK OF NICARAGUA REPUBLIC OF NICARAGUA CENTRAL AMERICA SAN JACINTO FARM FIVE HUNDRED CORDOBAS) |
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Nicaragua's central bank leaned heavily on the Canadian Bank Note Company throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s — a period when the córdoba was still recovering credibility after the catastrophic hyperinflation of the late 1980s, when prices rose by tens of thousands of percent annually and earlier denominations became worthless within months. By 2002, the currency had been restabilized through a crawling-peg exchange rate regime anchored to the US dollar, and high-denomination notes like this 500 were finally circulating in an economy where they could hold meaningful value.
The watermark is the sole listed security feature — modest for a note of this face value.