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5000 Colones woven security thread
| Issuer | Banco Central de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1999-2005 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue and dark brown intaglio printing on multicolour guilloche underprint. Central vignette presents a Costa Rican indigenous shaman rendered in pre-Columbian artistic style, with microprinting integrated into the design. Ascending-size serial numbers appear on the face, and a woven security thread is embedded at the left margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | CINCO MIL COLONES BANCO CENTRAL DE COSTA RICA (Translation: Five Thousand Colones Central Bank of Costa Rica) |
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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.