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Nicaragua banknotes
Nicaragua paper money catalog and Nicaraguan currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Spanish currency, till 1823
  • Escudo = 2 Pesos = 16 Reales, till 1823
  • Central American Republic Escudo = 16 Peso, 1823-1840
  • Nicaraguan Peso = (8 Central American Republic Reales), 1840-1878
  • Nicaraguan Peso = 100 Centavos, 1878-1912
  • Cordoba = (12.50 Pesos) = 100 Centavos, 1912-87
  • New Cordoba = (1.000 old Cordoba), 1988-1991
  • Cordoba Oro = (5.000.000 New Cordoba) = 100 Centavos, from1991

• To purchase Nicaraguan banknotes, please check our inventory :
  World banknotes countries A-Z

Pick #	Date
		Republic
A13-A15	1896	50 centavos, 1, 5 pesos
A22	1880	1 pesos
1-5	1881	1, 5, 25, 50, 100 pesos
6-8	1883	25, 50, 100 pesos
9-10	1885.03	20, 50 centavos
11-12	1885.11	10, 10 centavos
13-15	1886	20, 50 centavos, 1 peso
16-19	1894	5, 10, 20, 50 centavos
20-23	1894	20, 50 centavos, 1, 5, 10 pesos, commemorative "402 anniversary of the discovery of America"
24-27	1894	1, 5, 10, 50 pesos
28-33	1900	50 centavos, 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 pesos
34-39	1908	50 centavos, 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 pesos
40	1909	50 pesos
41-42	1910	5, 5 pesos
43-49	1910	50 centavos, 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 pesos
50-51	(1912)	4, 8 centavos
52-61	1912	10, 25, 50 centavos, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 Cordobas
62-69	1927-39	1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 Cordobas
70-78	(1934)	1, 1, 5, 10, 10, 20, 20, 50, 100 Cordobas
79-84	1935-38	10, 25, 50 centavos, 1, 2, 5, 10 Cordobas
85-86	1937	10, 25 centavos
87-89	1938	10, 25, 50 centavos
90-98	1941-51	1, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 Cordobas
99-106	1953-60	1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 Cordobas
107-14	1962	1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 Cordobas; serie "A"
115-20	1968	1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 Cordobas; serie "B"
121-28	1972	2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 Cordobas; serie "C"
129-30	1978	20, 50 Cordobas; serie "D"
131-33	1979	50, 100, 500 Cordobas; serie "E"
134-39	1979	10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 Cordobas; serie "E"
140-43	1984	50, 100, 500, 1.000 Cordobas; serie "F"
144-46	1985	500, 1.000, 5.000 Cordobas; serie "G"
NL(144-46)	(1987)	500, 1.000, 5.000 Cordobas; Sandinista validation stamps
147-50	1987	20.000, 50.000, 500.000, 1.000.000 Cordobas; overprints
151-156	1985	(1988) 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 Cordobas
157-59	(1988)	5.000, 10.000, 100.000 Cordobas; overprints
160-61	(1989)	20.000, 50.000 Cordobas
162-64	(1990)	200.000, 500.000, 1.000.000 Cordobas; overprints
165-166	(1990)	5.000.000, 10.000.000 Cordobas
167-179B	(1990)	1, 5, 10, 25 centavos, 1/2, 1/2, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 Cordobas
179-84	1992-96	1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 Cordobas
185-87	1997	20, 100 Cordobas
188-90	1999	10, 20, 100 Cordobas
191-95	2002	10, 20, 50, 100, 500 Cordobas
196-200	2006	10, 20, 50, 100, 500 Cordobas
201-6	2007	10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 Cordobas
207	(2010)	50 Cordobas; "50 Anniversary Banco Central de Nicaragua"
209	2012	100 Cordobas; commemorative "100 Anniversary of Cordoba currency"
210-15	2014	10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 Cordobas
216	2016	1.000 Cordobas; commemorative "Centenary of Death of Ruben Dario, 1916-1916"
217-218	2017	500, 1.000 Cordobas; plastic
219	2019	5 Cordobas; commemorative "60 Anniversary of Banco Central de Nicaragua"

		NICARAGUAN PRIVATE BANKS
		- Banco Agricola-Mercantil
s106-12	1888	50 centavos, 1, 5, 25, 50, 100 pesos
		- Banco de Centro America y Londres
s115-6	18--	50 centavos, 1, 100 pesos
		- Banco de Nicaragua
s121-6	1889-1890	50 centavos, 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 pesos