5000 Colones woven security thread

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.