Nicaragua - The Land of Lakes and Volcanoes
100,000 Cordobas On 100 Cordobas 1988-89 ND Provisional Issue P159

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Note Description: Nicaragua, Banco Central
100,000 Córdobas on 100 Córdobas ND (1989)
Grade: 67 EPQ
Country: NIC
Note Number: NIC159
Signatures/
Vignettes:		 - Ovpt. on
Nicaragua#154
Certification #: 8087731-008  
Owner: Love Collection
Sets Competing: Nicaragua - The Land of Lakes and Volcanoes  Score: 50
Date Added: 8/20/2021
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

These notes were overprinted with 100,000 cordobas on the 1985(1988) issue 100 Cordobas Note P154. The prefixes used were FA, FB, FD, FE, FF and the replacement notes were ZA. Only the prefix FC wasn't used for a 100,000 cordoba overprint note (p159). I don't have any information on how many were produced but its quite possible there was up to 10,000,000 for each prefix (as I have seen serial numbers from 0-9) so quite possibly up to 60 million were produced between the regular issue and the ones that were overprinted later.

The obverse of the note features Rigoberto Lopez Perez a poet declared a national hero by the Sandinista party in 1981, he would be remembered as the person who shot then president Anastasio Somoza in the chest (and he died later in hospital because of this) after he was able to infiltrate the Workers Social Club in Leon where Somoza was. Rigoberto himself was quickly shot dead in a hail of bullets by the National Guard. The Sandinistas had also renamed the national baseball stadium in his honour however it was renamed the Denis Martinez Stadium by the Arnoldo Aleman government in 1998. The reverse features the government building "Consejo De Estdao" or Council of State.

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