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10 Pesos
| Issuer | República de Costa Rica (Ministerio de Hacienda y Guerra) |
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| Year | 1865 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on brown underprint; coat of arms vignette at left, male figure with walking stick at right. Central text block carries the bearer obligation in Spanish, with issuing authority inscriptions above and below. Printer's imprint of Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. appears at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 REPUBLICA DE COSTA RICA Las Administraciones de las Rentas Publicas pagarán al Portador la Suma de DIEZ PESOS en moneda acuñada y corriente de este Pais. SAN JOSÉ DE COSTA RICA, 2 de Enero de 1865 EL SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA EL ADMINISTRADOR PRINCIPAL MINISTERO DE HACIENDA Y GUERRA REPUBLICA DE COSTA RICA AMERICA CENTRAL BRADBURY, WILKINSON & Co. BANK NOTE ENGRAVERS, LONDON (Translation: Republic of Costa Rica. The Public Revenue Administrations will pay to the bearer the sum of ten pesos in minted and current money of this country. San José, Costa Rica, January 2nd, 1865. The Secretary of the Treasury. The Principal Administrator. Ministry of Finance and War. Republic of Costa Rica. Central America.) |
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Costa Rica's Ministerio de Hacienda y Guerra — the combined Finance and War ministry — issued this note directly as a government obligation rather than through a chartered bank, a distinction that mattered legally and commercially. At this point Costa Rica had no central bank; fiscal paper circulated alongside private bank notes and foreign coin in a monetary environment that was, at best, improvised.
Bradbury, Wilkinson had already established themselves as the preferred security printer for Latin American governments by the 1860s, handling engraving and printing for several small republics with limited domestic infrastructure. Pick 104 is among the earliest Costa Rican government notes catalogued, and surviving examples are genuinely rare.