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1000 Córdobas
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Nicaragua |
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| Year | 1953-1960 |
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| Value | 1000 Córdobas |
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| Obverse description | Brown on multicolour underprint. Left vignette carries an intaglio portrait of Anastasio Somoza García, with the national Coat of Arms occupying the right field. Guilloche patterns frame the composition, and the denomination numeral '1000' appears in the four corners against a fine lathe-work underprint. |
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| Reverse description | Brown on multicolour underprint. The central vignette presents an aerial intaglio view of the Estadio Nacional in Managua, enclosed within an oval guilloche border. Denomination numeral '1000' appears in each corner within ornate cartouches, and the bank title is inscribed across the top panel above the stadium vignette. |
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Nicaragua's 1000 Córdoba denomination sat at the very top of the Banco Nacional's mid-century note hierarchy — a value few ordinary Nicaraguans would have handled in daily transactions. The Somoza-era economy of the 1950s kept high-denomination notes largely within commercial and government banking channels, where they functioned as interbank instruments more than retail currency.
Thomas De La Rue's production for Nicaragua during this period is well-documented and consistent in quality. The series ran across several years with only minor variation, making date position and signature combinations the primary differentiators between sub-types within the P#106 designation.