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25 Pesos
| Issuer | Ministerio de Hacienda y Guerra, República de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1865 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 VEINTICINCO PESOS REPUBLICA DE COSTA RICA Las Administraciones de las Rentas Publicas pagarán al Portador la Suma de VEINTICINCO PESOS en moneda acuñada y corriente de este Pais. San José de Costa Rica, 2 de Enero de 1865 El Secretario de Hacienda El Administrador Principal MINISTERO DE HACIENDA Y GUERRA REPUBLICA DE COSTA RICA AMERICA CENTRAL BRADBURY, WILKINSON & Co. BANK NOTE ENGRAVERS, LONDON (Translation: Twenty-five pesos. Republic of Costa Rica. The Public Revenue Administrations will pay to the bearer the sum of twenty-five pesos in minted and current money of this country. San José, Costa Rica, January 2nd, 1865. The Secretary of the Treasury. The Principal Administrator. Ministry of Finance and War. Republic of Costa Rica. Central America.) |
| Reverse description | Plain blue-tinted paper reverse, unprinted save for a purple double-line cancellation overprint reading "CANCELADO" with the legend "CONTRALORIA DE REPUBLICA" between the lines. Cancellation perforations are also visible in multiple positions across the surface. |
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Costa Rica's Ministerio de Hacienda y Guerra — the combined Finance and War ministry — issued currency directly rather than through a chartered bank, a structural arrangement that reflected the country's shallow financial infrastructure in the 1860s. Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. had by this point established themselves as one of London's most reliable security printers, with a client list spanning multiple Latin American governments simultaneously.
The Pick 105 series is genuinely rare. Few examples are known to have survived, almost certainly because the notes were issued in limited quantities and the period saw considerable political instability in Costa Rica during the mid-1860s.