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Auction: 343 - World Banknotes, The Ibrahim Salem Collection of South America and Other Properties at Grand Hyatt, NY INC
Lot: 296

Banco Central de Costa Rica, an obverse and reverse printers archival composite essay on card for a 5 Colones, San Jose, 9 May 1956, red serial number 000000, green on multicoloured underprint, Carillo at right, value at centre left, reverse coffee worker, value in guilloches at left and right,
(Pick 220 for type), Pick states ABNC printings but these are De la Rue designs. Probably the model used for the final issue. Parts of guilloches missing on obverse and reverse, otherwise uncirculated, unique (2)


Estimate
$800 to $1,000