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5000 Colones - Banco Nacional
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Costa Rica |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of María Teresa Obreón, Costa Rican suffragist and legislator. Two overprint bands — one vertical, simulating a security strip, and one horizontal — repeat the text "5 MIL COLONES" across the face. Denomination "5000 CRC" appears in the underprint field. |
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| Reverse lettering | COMO PENSAR EN IGUALDAD ECONOMICA SI NI SIQUIERA NUESTRO DINERO LA REFLEJA? Escaneá este QR para ser parte de la petición de oficializar 2 billetes que representan a mujeres e inscribirte en el evento virtual de BN Mujer. ESTE VOLANTE NO ES UN BILLETE POR LO QUE NO TIENE VALOR BANCO NACIONAL (Translation: How to think about economic equality if our currency doesn't even show it? Scan this QR code to add your name to the petition to create 2 banknotes representing women and to register in the virtual event of BN (National Bank) women. This pamphlet is not a banknote so it has no value) |
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Banco Nacional de Costa Rica has issued multiple distinct 5000 Colones series over the decades, so without a specific Pick number or date it is difficult to isolate what makes this particular note worth discussing. What can be said generally is that the 5000 Colón denomination entered circulation as Costa Rica's inflation steadily eroded the purchasing power of lower values — a trajectory that accelerated sharply through the 1980s debt crisis, when the colón lost roughly 90% of its dollar value in under three years.
Banco Nacional itself, founded in 1914, was restructured under state control in 1948 following the brief civil war that brought José Figueres Ferrer to power — the same political moment that abolished the Costa Rican army.