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5000 Colones woven security thread
| Issuer | Banco Central de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1999-2005 |
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| Printer | François-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire, France |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour vignette spanning the full width of the note with a richly detailed rainforest composition: a keel-billed toucan in flight occupies the upper centre, a jaguar crouches amid tropical ferns in the middle ground, and a large pre-Columbian stone sphere anchors the centre-left. At right stands a carved indigenous stone figure, while a decorative pre-Columbian motif fills the upper-left corner. The printer's imprint "FRANÇOIS-CHARLES OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE" appears in small lettering along the lower centre margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Costa Rica's 5000 Colón note went through several security upgrades across the late 1990s and early 2000s, and this iteration is distinguished from related issues specifically by its woven — rather than windowed — security thread. The distinction matters to collectors because Pick 268 encompasses variants that are easy to conflate without close examination of the thread type.
Oberthur's Rennes facility handled the bulk of Central American fiduciary printing during this period, and the cotton substrate here is consistent with their standard specification for tropical-circulation notes, where humidity resistance was a practical concern rather than a cosmetic one.