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1000 cordobas
| Issuer | Banco Central de Nicaragua |
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| Year | 1972 |
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| Value | 1000 Córdobas |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of President Anastasio Somoza García in three-quarter view occupies the right portion of the note, his name printed below in brown letterpress. The centre bears a large denomination numeral vignette framed by multicolour guilloche rosettes in orange and pink tones against a pale underprint, with the serial number appearing twice in black. Three manuscript signatures of the Presidente de la República, Presidente del Banco Central de Nicaragua, and Gerente del Banco Central de Nicaragua run along the lower margin, separated by a fine-line security microtext band reading BANCOCENTRALDENICARAGUA. |
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| Reverse description | The left half of the reverse carries a detailed intaglio vignette of the Managua cityscape as seen from the lakefront, with low-rise buildings, palm trees, and Lake Managua rendered in fine line engraving in brown tones, captioned CIUDAD DE MANAGUA below. To the right, a large multicolour guilloche rosette in orange, green, and lilac surrounds the denomination numeral 1000, all enclosed within the standard brown intaglio border of interlocking scroll-work. |
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Nicaragua's 1972 1000 Córdobas was issued under the Somoza dictatorship at a time when the Banco Central was effectively a tool of regime finance. Thomas De La Rue printed the series in London, as they had for Nicaragua through much of the mid-twentieth century, providing the engraving quality a domestic print facility could not match.
The December 1972 Managua earthquake — one of the most destructive in Central American history — struck the same year, collapsing the capital and triggering massive international aid that the Somoza family was widely documented to have diverted. High-denomination notes from this period circulated in an economy already being looted from within.