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100 Pesos
| Issuer | República de Costa Rica (Ministerio de Hacienda y Guerra) |
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| Year | 1865 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on brown and green underprint; national coat of arms vignette at left, Legislative Palace building vignette at right. Denomination "CIEN" and "100" appear within the text panel, with issuing authority and promise-to-pay legend in Spanish across the centre. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface; reverse is unprinted plain paper. A circular official ink stamp is visible at centre, likely a cancellation or authentication seal applied in circulation. |
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Costa Rica's 1865 issue predates the establishment of the Banco Nacional by decades — these notes were obligations of the treasury itself, not a central bank, issued at a moment when the country had no formal banking institution capable of currency emission. The Ministerio de Hacienda y Guerra combining finance and war portfolios under one roof was not unusual for the region at the time, but it gave the notes an unusually direct relationship to state solvency rather than monetary policy.
Bradbury, Wilkinson engraved and printed for dozens of Latin American governments throughout the nineteenth century, and their work on this series is consistent with the quality they brought to comparable issues in the region. Survival rate is low — Costa Rica's tropical climate has not been kind to nineteenth-century paper.