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5 Cordobas
| Issuer | Banco Central de Nicaragua |
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| Year | 1972 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company Limited, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Dark grey intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint. The central vignette portrays Cacique Nicarao, the indigenous chieftain of southwestern Nicaragua in the early 16th century, framed by ornate guilloche borders. Bank title and denomination panels are rendered in intaglio at the upper and lower margins respectively. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Nicaragua's 1972 series was printed before the catastrophic earthquake that leveled Managua in December of that year — an event that disrupted not just the physical city but the entire apparatus of government finance. Notes from this printing entered circulation during the subsequent reconstruction chaos, when the Somoza regime's handling of international relief funds became one of the most documented corruption scandals in Central American history.
De La Rue's involvement with Nicaraguan currency ran continuously through the Somoza period. The watermark security on this series is modest by contemporary standards, reflecting the relatively limited counterfeiting pressure Nicaragua faced compared to larger regional economies.