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1000 Colones 50 Aniversario BCCR

1000 Colones (50 Aniversario BCCR) - obverse1000 Colones (50 Aniversario BCCR) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Costa Rica
Issuing bank Central Bank of Costa Rica (Banco Central de Costa Rica)
Period Second Republic (1948-date)
Type Circulating commemorative banknotes
Year 1998
Value 1000 Colones (1000 CRC)
Currency Colón (1896-date)
Composition Paper
Size 157 × 67 mm
Shape Rectangular
Technique Overprinted
Issued 2000
Demonetized 1 September 2011
Number
N#
397770
References P# 270
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

Commemorative issue

50th Anniversary of the Central Bank of Costa Rica

Obverse

Portrait of Tomás Soley Güell at left.
Telescopic serial number at upper right.
Commemorative overprint (50 Aniversario BCCR).
Red print. Curved lines design.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
23 de Setiembre de 1998
SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA

MIL
COLONES

50 ANIVERSARIO BCCR
TOMÁS SOLEY GÜELL
BANCO CENTRAL DE COSTA RICA

Translation:
SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA
50 ANNIVERSARY BCCR

ONE THOUSAND
COLONES

TOMÁS SOLEY GÜELL
CENTRAL BANK OF COSTA RICA

Reverse

Illustration of the National Insurance Institute.
Red print. Curved lines design.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
MIL
COLONES

INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SEGUROS
BANCO CENTRAL DE COSTA RICA

Translation:
One Thousand Colones

National Insurance Institute
Central Bank of Costa Rica

Watermark

Portrait of Tomás Soley Güell

1000 Colones (50 Aniversario BCCR) -  obverse

© Numista- gyoschak (CC BY-NC-SA)

Printer

Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date)

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Date No. printed VG F VF XF AU UNC
1998-Sep-23  9 999 D02395501 → D02396500 (Signatures: Eduardo Lizano Fait & José Rafael Brenes Vega)

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