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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Tesoro Nacional de Nicaragua |
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| Year | 1910 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Black and green on multicolour underprint. A vignette of Christopher Columbus appears at right, framed within fine guilloche work. Three manuscript signatures appear across the lower portion of the face, with order numbers printed in red. |
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| Reverse lettering | TESORO NACIONAL REPÚBLICA DE NICARAGUA CINCUENTA 50 CENTAVOS AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK (Translation: National Treasury Republic of Nicaragua Fifty Cents American Bank Note Company, New York) |
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Nicaragua's Tesoro Nacional issued this fractional note during a period of acute financial instability — the country was effectively insolvent by 1911, when a U.S.-brokered loan agreement placed its customs revenues under American receivership. This 50 Centavos note predates that intervention by a year, making it part of the final issues produced under genuinely independent Nicaraguan fiscal authority before external creditors took control.
The American Bank Note Company's involvement here is purely commercial — ABNC handled currency printing for dozens of Latin American governments in this period, and the Nicaraguan account was one of several small-denomination fractional contracts they ran simultaneously out of New York.