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Note Details

Set Details
Note Description: Nicaragua, Banco Central
10 Córdobas 2002
Grade: 65 EPQ*
Country: NIC
Note Number: NIC191
Signatures/
Vignettes:		 - Wmk: M. de Larreynaga
Certification #: 8066952-009  
Owner: Love Collection
Sets Competing: Nicaragua Complete Set # 2  Score: 31
Date Added: 11/29/2019
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

These all new designs for the 2002 series A notes were the first release in the Cordoba Oro to have been consolidated with all the denominations (from 10 through to 500 Cordobas) to be uniform in design, being the first time since the first notes were released in 1990.

This was the only denomination that didn't carry on to the following 2006 series B notes.

This particular note has received the prestigious PMG star designation.

I don't have exact figures but I believe there was approximately 45 million of these notes produced based on the serial numbers I have seen for this issue. This particular note is one of the lower serial numbers that I have seen with 4 digits (# 2039).

The obverse of the banknotes feature Miguel Larreynaga who was a Nicaraguan lawyer and writer but more well known for his part in Central America gaining independence from Spain. He travelled together with a group to Spain to ask the Spanish Monarchy for independence in 1818. And he was present at the drafting and signing of the Central American Independence Act celebrated in Guatemala City on the 15th of September 1821. Miguel also featured on previous 10 Cordoba banknotes from 1953 to 1968. He was replaced by Andres Castro on subsequent issues (1972 - 1988). And returned to the 10 Cordoba banknote from 1990 - 2002 (this emission).

The reverse of the note features the Isletas de Granada (Granada Islands) which is a group of Islands located just off the coast of the city of Granada in the large freshwater Lake Nicaragua and a popular tourist destination with many hotels and private residences that have been constructed upon these mini islands.

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