| Slot: |
50 Centavos 1911 Issue (dated 1910) P43s |
| Item: |
Nicaragua "SPECIMEN"
50 Centavos 1910 - Printer: ABNC |
| Grade: |
PMG 64 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
5003326-005
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Owner Comments
These notes for 1910 have two different signature varieties. The banknotes all feature Christopher Columbus on the obverse of the notes.
From what I could find these notes were originated through a contract from the Government with a wealthy businessman by the name of Alfredo Pellas (his descendants are still very prominent business owners running several successful businesses within Nicaragua including the famous Nicaraguan Rum Flor de Caña) on the 9th of January 1910. For the 50 Centavos notes there was to be 1.5 million printed with a face value of 750,000 pesos.
There was an executive decree #122 on the 27th of March 1911 under the new government authorising to print the same amount of notes but this time they were printed with the signature new President Juan Estrada. Based on the serial numbers they continued this series from 1500000 through to 3000000.
This particular note is a specimen of the B type with the second signature variety. In the other sets you will find the regular issue notes with both signature varieties.
Later some of these notes were overprinted in 1912 to have a new face value of 4 centavos (P50).
Christopher Columbus was of course the famous Italian explorer that mistakenly had discovered the Americas.
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| Slot: |
1 Peso 1911 Issue (dated 1910) P44s |
| Item: |
Nicaragua "SPECIMEN"
1 Peso 1910 |
| Grade: |
PMG 66 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
1036087-033
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Owner Comments
These notes for 1910 have two different signature varieties. The banknotes all feature Christopher Columbus on the obverse of the notes.
From what I could find these notes were originated through a contract from the Government with a wealthy businessman by the name of Alfredo Pellas (his descendants are still very prominent business owners running several successful businesses within Nicaragua including the famous Nicaraguan Rum Flor de Caña) on the 9th of January 1910. For the 1 Peso notes there was to be 1.25 million printed with a face value of 1,250,000 pesos.
There was an executive decree #122 on the 27th of March 1911 under the new government authorising to print the same amount of notes but this time they were printed with the signature new President Juan Estrada. Based on the serial numbers they continued this series from 1250000 through to 2500000.
Later some of these notes were overprinted in 1912 to have a new face value of 8 centavos (P51).
Christopher Columbus was of course the famous Italian explorer that mistakenly had discovered the Americas.
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| Slot: |
10 Pesos 1911 Issue (dated 1910) P46s |
| Item: |
Nicaragua "SPECIMEN"
10 Pesos 1910 |
| Grade: |
PMG 66 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
1166967-009
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Owner Comments
These notes for 1910 have two different signature varieties. The banknotes all feature Christopher Columbus on the obverse of the notes. And the national coat of arms on the reverse.
From what I could find these notes were originated through a contract from the Government with a wealthy businessman by the name of Alfredo Pellas (his descendants are still very prominent business owners running several successful businesses within Nicaragua including the famous Nicaraguan Rum Flor de Caña) on the 9th of January 1910. For the 10 Pesos notes there was to be 325,000 printed with a face value of 3,250,000 pesos.
There was an executive decree #122 on the 27th of March 1911 under the new government authorising to print the same amount of notes but this time they were printed with the signature new President Juan Estrada. Based on the serial numbers they continued this series from 325000 through to 650000.
This particular note is a specimen of the A type with the first signature variety.
Christopher Columbus was of course the famous Italian explorer that mistakenly had discovered the Americas.
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| Slot: |
10 Centavos Ley de 20 de Marzo de 1912 P52s |
| Item: |
Nicaragua, Banco Nacional "SPECIMEN"
10 Centavos 1912 (ND 1914-26) |
| Grade: |
PMG 67 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
2002211-003
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| Slot: |
25 Centavos Ley de 20 de Marzo de 1912 P53s |
| Item: |
Nicaragua, Banco Nacional "SPECIMEN"
25 Centavos 1912 (ND 1918) - Printer: ABNC |
| Grade: |
PMG 65 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
2002211-004
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| Slot: |
50 Centavos Ley de 20 de Marzo de 1912 P54s |
| Item: |
Nicaragua, Banco Nacional "SPECIMEN"
50 Centavos 1912 (ND 1918) - Printer: ABNC |
| Grade: |
PMG 66 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
2002211-005
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| Slot: |
5 Cordobas 1927-39 Issue P65s |
| Item: |
Nicaragua, Banco Nacional "SPECIMEN"
5 Córdobas 1927 |
| Grade: |
PMG 64 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
8066450-001
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Owner Comments
These all new design banknotes for 1927 were approved through an executive decree # 134 on the 14th of June 1927. The same design would be carried through until 1951.
The obverse of this note features cattle whilst the rear features the National coat of arms.
The decree doesn't mention the amount of banknotes ordered, however information from a book of the ABNC archives shows that for 1927 there was two lots produced each of 100,000 notes (000001 - 100000 & 100001 to 200000) in March of 1928. There was 400,000 notes produced for 1938 series and 200,000 notes for the 1939 series.
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| Slot: |
20 Cordobas 1927-39 Issue P67s |
| Item: |
Nicaragua "SPECIMEN"
20 Córdobas 1929-39 - Printer: ABNC |
| Grade: |
PMG 65 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
1166967-005
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| Slot: |
50 Cordobas 1927-39 Issue P68s |
| Item: |
Nicaragua, Banco Nacional "SPECIMEN"
50 Córdobas 1929 |
| Grade: |
PMG 66 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
2107602-014
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| Slot: |
100 Cordobas 1927-39 Issue P69s |
| Item: |
Nicaragua, Banco Nacional "SPECIMEN"
100 Córdobas 1939 |
| Grade: |
PMG 64 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
8002318-018
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Owner Comments
These newly designed 100 Cordoba banknotes were placed into circulation on the 1st of November 1939 through executive decree # 11 approved on the 30th of October 1939. There was a total of 30,000 notes produced from serial numbers 000001 through to 030000 making this an extremely rare issued note to find, this example being a specimen. These notes were to replace the previous 1912 100 Cordoba banknotes. The same design would be carried forward to the 1941/45 issues.
The same colour scheme would be used on banknotes through to 1972.
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| Slot: |
10 Centavos 1937 ND Issue P85s |
| Item: |
Nicaragua, Banco Nacional "SPECIMEN"
10 Centavos ND (1937) - Printer: ABNC |
| Grade: |
PMG 67 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
2511104-014
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Owner Comments
There are two varieties for this undated 1937 10 Centavos banknotes, this one a specimen is the second variety (P 85b) with the Gerente General (General Manager) signature, and other variety has the Director Gerente (Managing Director) signature. This first print were authorised to be printed with the same characteristics as the previous 1912 dated banknotes without the legend Ley 1912 (Law of 1912) through an executive decree #1 on the 5th of January 1937 authorising American Banknote Co to print a total of 560,000 (400,000 10 Centavos & 160,000 25 Centavos) banknotes with a face value of 80,000 Cordobas. They were placed into circulation from the 1st of June 1937 through Executive Decree # 21 on the 26th of May 1937 with serial numbers from 000001 through to 400000.
The second emission (P 86b) which had a further 600,000 banknotes issued through two further Executive Decrees the first one was #45 on the 15th of January 1938 authorising the circulation of 500,000 10 Centavos notes from serial numbers 400001 to 900000. And a 2nd Executive decree # 52 on the 4th of February authorising the circulation of a further 100,000 notes from serial numbers 900001 through to 1000000.
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| Slot: |
25 Centavos 1937 ND Issue P86s |
| Item: |
Nicaragua, Banco Nacional "SPECIMEN"
25 Centavos ND (1937) - Printer: ABNC |
| Grade: |
PMG 67 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
8065182-001
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Owner Comments
There are two varieties for this undated 1937 25 Centavos banknotes, this one a specimen is the first variety (P 86a) with the Director Gerente (Managing Director) signature, and other variety has the Gerente General (General Manager) signature. This first print were authorised to be printed with the same characteristics as the previous 1912 dated banknotes without the legend Ley 1912 (Law of 1912) through an executive decree #1 on the 5th of January 1937 authorising American Banknote Co to print a total of 560,000 (400,000 10 Centavos & 160,000 25 Centavos) banknotes with a face value of 80,000 Cordobas. They were placed into circulation from the 1st of June 1937 through Executive Decree # 21 on the 26th of May 1937 with serial numbers from 000001 through to 160000.
The second emission (P 86b) which had a further 400,000 banknotes issued through two further Executive Decrees the first one was #45 on the 15th of January 1938 authorising the circulation of 200,000 25 Centavos notes from serial numbers 160001 to 360000. And a 2nd Executive decree # 52 on the 4th of February authorising the circulation of a further 200,000 notes from serial numbers 360001 through to 560000.
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| Slot: |
25 Centavos 1938 Issue P88s |
| Item: |
Nicaragua, Banco Nacional "SPECIMEN"
25 Centavos 1938 |
| Grade: |
PMG 66 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
2019385-009
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| Slot: |
1 Cordoba 1941-45 Issue P91s |
| Item: |
Nicaragua, Banco Nacional "SPECIMEN"
1 Córdoba 1949 |
| Grade: |
PMG 65 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
8065182-002
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Owner Comments
These banknotes from 1949 - 1951 used the same design as the previous 1941-45 issued notes (P90) with the main difference being the text for the Series being larger/bolder and in Red ink. The effigy is of Lillian Somoza the daughter of the then dictator president Anastasio Somoza. She featured on the 1 Cordoba notes from 1941 - 1960. The reverse shows the National Coat of Arms as per the previous issues.
I couldn't find any decrees however the information from the ABNC archives shows that 3 million banknotes were produced in February 1949, and two lots produced for the 1951 issue. The first for 5 million and then a following 2 million in 1953.
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| Slot: |
5 Cordobas 1941-45 Issue P93s |
| Item: |
Nicaragua, Banco Nacional "SPECIMEN"
5 Córdobas 1942-51 |
| Grade: |
PMG 67 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
2195907-005
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