Nicaragua - The Land of Lakes and Volcanoes - Specimen
500 Cordobas 2002 Issue P195s

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Note Description: Nicaragua, Banco Central "SPECIMEN"
500 Córdobas 2002
Grade: 66 EPQ
Country: NIC
Note Number: NIC195s
Signatures/
Vignettes:		 - Wmk: J.D. Estrada
Certification #: 8075233-014  
Owner: Love Collection
Sets Competing: Nicaragua - The Land of Lakes and Volcanoes - Specimen  Score: 891
Date Added: 9/22/2020
Research: Currently not available

Owner's Description

This all new 2002 500 Cordobas banknote marks the return of this denomination, a previous 500 Cordobas banknote from 1992 (P178A) was produced but never released into circulation. The same design was carried forward for the 2006 Series B release.

This is a specimen note and the regular issue I have in my 2nd set in grade 65 EPQ *.

These particular banknotes are one of my favourites and were one of the reasons I started collecting Nicaragua in the first place, I was living in Nicaragua during this period when they were circulating and I always made sure I had a few of these in my wallet! I loved the vivid reddish pink colours with the hologram security thread running down the RH side.

The obverse of the banknote features Jose Dolores Estrada a Nicaraguan National Hero that was in charge of an army that helped defeat the filibuster army of William Walker in the battle at San Jacinto Hacienda (featured on the reverse of the note) in 1856. He was previously featured on the 100 Cordobas banknotes from 1962 through to 1984. The San Jacinto Haciendo was later featured on the obverse of the new 1000 Cordobas banknotes from 2017 onwards.

As at October 2020 this was the only specimen that had been graded. There was only a total of 4 regular issues graded in grades 66 EPQ down to 35.

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