Nicaragua - The Land of Lakes and Volcanoes
100 Cordobas 1992-96 Issue P184

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Note Description: Nicaragua, Banco Central
100 Córdobas 1992
Grade: AU 58
Country: NIC
Note Number: NIC184
Signatures/
Vignettes:		 - Printer: TDLR
Certification #: 8066952-003  
Owner: Love Collection
Sets Competing: Nicaragua - The Land of Lakes and Volcanoes  Score: 237
Date Added: 11/29/2019
Research: Currently not available

Owner's Description

These 1992 Series B 100 Cordoba Oro banknotes were produced by De La Rue Co and continue the same design from the previous 1990 Series A notes. They feature on the obverse the effigy of the legendary Nicaraguan poet Ruben Dario. It is the first time Ruben Dario has featured on a 100 Cordoba banknote, having previously featured on multiple issues from 1945 through to 1985 on the 500 Cordobas banknotes. He will feature on further releases of the 100 Cordoba banknotes through to 2006, and also features on the 1000 Cordoba Commemorative issue in 2016. Also is the scene of cotton fields which is the same design that was used on the reverse of the 1972 2 cordobas banknotes. The reverse features the Nicaraguan Coat of Arms.

The design of these 100 Cordoba banknotes remain mainly unchanged for the subsequent Series C (1997) & Series D (1999) issues. With only a small difference from the series A issue in this note they only used two signatures dropping the signature from the First Vice President of Central Bank and it was the only note in the series B that kept the wording Cordobo Oro in the border, the word Oro (Gold) was dropped for the series C issue keeping inline with the other denominations. The series C had a changing of wording for the quote from Ruben Dario from: "Si la patria es pequeño uno grande lo sueña" to: "Si pequeña es la patria uno grande lo sueña". The first version is the more well known version and both versions literally translates to if the homeland is small than one dreams it to be larger. And finally for the series D they included a horizontal security thread.

I believe based on the serial numbers that I have seen that there was no more than 5 million of these notes produced. They are very rare to find in UNC condition with this example in AU 58 being the best one I was able to get my hands on.

As at October 2020 there were only 2 notes graded with this being the highest and the other at grade 30.

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