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20 Colones Banco de Costa Rica

20 Colones (Banco de Costa Rica) - obverse20 Colones (Banco de Costa Rica) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Costa Rica
Issuing entity Banco de Costa Rica
Period First Republic (1848-1948)
Type Standard circulation banknotes
Year 1901
Value 20 Colones
20 CRC = USD 0.043
Currency Colón (1896-date)
Composition Paper
Size 170 × 75 mm
Shape Rectangular
Number
N#
551493
References P# S175
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

Series: 1901 Issue

Obverse

Black on multicolor underprint.
Miners shoveling carbon on a mine, with rail carts and pickaxes.
Black overprints of Series and Serial Numbers.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
20 BANCO DE COSTA RICA 20
EL BANCO DE COSTA RICA PAGARA AL PORTADOR LA CANTIDAD DE
20 20
VEINTE COLONES
Serie D En moneda de oro Acuñada
EL presidente El director
20
20 Veinte 20
AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK.

Reverse

Green on multicolor underprint.
Bank building center.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BANCO
10 10
DE COSTA RICA
DIEZ
AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK.

Printer

American Banknote Corporation (American Bank Note Company), United States (1795-date)

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1901)  P#S175r. Series D (undated remainder)

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