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5 Córdobas
| Issuer | National Bank of Nicaragua Incorporated (Banco Nacional de Nicaragua) |
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| Year | 1934 |
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| Value | 5 Córdobas |
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| Obverse description | Grey tint on multicolour guilloche underprint, with a central vignette of cattle at pasture. The note bears a diagonal red overprint reading "REVALIDADO" (revalidated), applied across the face. Bilingual bank title and statutory legends appear in the upper and lower border panels, with the denomination numeral and written value flanking the central design. |
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| Reverse lettering | NATIONAL BANK OF NICARAGUA INCORPORATED BANCO NACIONAL DE NICARAGUA REPUBLICA DE NICARAGUA AMERICA CENTRAL CINCO CÓRDOBAS AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY (Translation: National Bank of Nicaragua Incorporated National Bank of Nicaragua Republic of Nicaragua Central America Five Cordobas American Bank Note Company) |
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The Banco Nacional de Nicaragua was itself an unusual institution — partly U.S.-owned and operating under a 1924 charter that gave American interests significant oversight of Nicaraguan finances, a direct product of the occupation period. This note was issued while that arrangement was still in effect, though U.S. Marines had withdrawn two years earlier in 1933.
ABNC supplied Nicaragua with engraved currency throughout this period, and the quality of the intaglio work reflects the company's standard commercial output of the era. The P#72 belongs to a series that bridged the occupation banking structure and the nominally independent central banking that followed.