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100 Pesos Banco Anglo Costarricense
| Issuer | Banco Anglo Costarricense |
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| Year | 1864 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on brown and green underprint; front-facing bust vignette of Queen Victoria flanked by flags at top centre, with a right-facing bull vignette at left. Denomination and bank name appear in bold letterpress, with text body in a smaller serif face. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface; reverse printed entirely in plain orange paper with no design elements, vignettes, or lettering, aside from a faint blind-stamp numeral impression visible at left of centre. |
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Banco Anglo Costarricense was established in 1863 as Costa Rica's first chartered bank, a joint venture operating under British banking principles in a country that had no domestic note-issuing tradition. This 1864 issue is among the earliest banknotes printed for any Costa Rican institution. Bradbury, Wilkinson & Company, already well established in security printing by this date, handled the production in London — the finished sheets then shipped to San José for signature and release.
The orange paper composition is notable: tinted paper was a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure favored by Bradbury Wilkinson in this period, harder to replicate with the lithographic equipment available in Central America at the time.