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100 Cordobas
| Issuer | Banco Central de Nicaragua |
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| Year | 1972 |
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| Size | 156 x 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | Violet intaglio print on multicolor guilloche underprint. Portrait vignette of José Dolores Estrada at right, with three manuscript signatures below the central text panel. Denominational numerals appear at left and right corners against an intricate latticework background. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in violet and multicolor. At left, a large botanical vignette of the Sacuanjoche (Plumeria rubra), Nicaragua's national flower, rendered with fine intaglio line work against broad leaves. At centre-right, the numeral '100' is set within an elaborate guilloche rosette framed by scrollwork, with the denomination legend in a cartouche at the foot. |
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Nicaragua's 1972 series was issued under the Somoza government at a moment of relative monetary stability — that stability would be shattered within months when the catastrophic December 1972 earthquake destroyed central Managua, killing thousands and destabilizing the economy for years. Notes from this issue entered circulation just before that rupture and many were lost or damaged in the disaster's aftermath.
Thomas De La Rue printed the series in London, a long-standing arrangement for Nicaraguan currency that predates the Banco Central's founding in 1961.