Costa Rica Gets
New
¢20.000 Note In
July, ¢50.000 To
Follow
The Banco
Central de Costa
Rica - Central
Bank - on
Tuesday unveiled
the new ¢20.000
and ¢50.000
notes that will
be in
circulation in
July 2010.
The new bills
will be in
addition to the
¢1.000, ¢2.000.
¢5.000 and
¢10.000 notes
alreay in use,
which will also
be undergoing a
change.
Marvin Alvarado,
of the Cental
Bank, explained
that the first
to be emitted
will be the
¢20.000 by the
end of July or
early August,
with the rest
following slowly
thereafter.
The new bills
will honour
Braulio
Carrillo, Mauro
Fernández,
Alfredo González,
José Figueres,
María Isabel
Carvajal (Carmen
Lyra) and
Ricardo Jiménez
on the face and
the country's
biodiversity on
the back.
During the
presentation,
the Central Bank
introduced the
new design for
the ¢2.000 and
the ¢10.000
notes, the
former being
blue and the
latter green.
The new design,
although not
available for
the press
conference, will
also be for the
¢1.000 note
which will
continue to be
red, commonly
known in Costa
Rica as "a rojo"
and the ¢5.000
note that will
be yellow.
The new notes
will also be
different in
sizes, from
small to large,
depending on the
denomination of
the bill.
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