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A brief monetary history:
- Spanich currency, till 1823
- Escudo = 2 Pesos = 16 Reales, till 1823
- Central American Republic Escudo = 16 Peso, 1823-1840
- Costa Rican Peso = (8 Central American Republic Reales), 1840-1864
- Costa Rican Peso = 100 Centavos, 1864-1896
- Colon = (Peso) = 100 Centavos, from 1896

Pick #	Date
		Republic
101-7	1865-71	1, 2, 5, 5, 10, 10, 25, 50, 50 pesos
111	1877	1 peso
120-24	1884-88	5, 10, 25, 50, 100 pesos
131-35	1897	5, 10, 25, 50 colones
141-46	1942-44	1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2 colones
147-50A	1917-21	50 centimos, 1, 2, 50, 100 colones
151-52	1918-20	2, 2 colones
		- -Banco Internation de Costa Rica
156-64	1918-35	25, 50 centimos, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 colones; seria A
165	1935	50 centimos; seria B
166-70B	1916-35	1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 20, 50, 100 colones; seria B
171-72	1918	5, 10 colones; overprint
173-78	1919-36	50 centimos, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 colones; seria C
179	1931	10 colones; overprint
180-82	1931-36	5, 10, 100 colones; seria D
183	1933	50 colones; seria E
		- -Caja de Conversion
184-89	1924-29	2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 colones; ABNC
189A-B	1929	5, 10 colones; TDLR
		- -Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
190-94	1937-43	1, 10, 20, 50, 100 colones; overprint type A
195	1937-38	2 colones; overprint type B
196-7	1939-40	2, 2 colones; overprint type C
198-200	1937-39	5, 10, 20 colones; overprint type D
201-2	1941-45	2, 20 colones; series E
203-8	1946-49	2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 colones; series F
209-12	1942-49	5, 10, 50, 100 colones; series G
		- -Banco Central de Costa Rica
215-19	1950-55	5, 10, 20, 50, 100 colones; overprint
220-26	1951-77	5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 colones; series A
227	1958-62	5 colones; series B
228-34	1963-70	5, 10, 10, 20, 50, 100, 100 colones
235	1967	2 colones; overprint
236-40	1968-92	5, 10, 20, 50, 100 colones
241-46	1971	5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 colones; commemorative ovpt "150 anos de Independencia 1821-1971"
247	1975	5 colones; commemorative ovpt "XXV aniversario Banco Central"
248-50	1975-88	100, 500, 1.000 colones
251	1978-86	50 colones; commemorative Bank Costa Rica 1877-1977
252-56	1983-90	50, 100, 500, 1.000 colones
257-60	1990-95	50, 100, 1.000, 5.000 colones
261-67	1993-98	100, 500, 1.000, 2.000, 5.000, 10.000 colones
267A-68	1999	1.000, 5.000 colones
269-73	2000	500, 1.000, 2.000, 5.000, 10.000 colones; commemorative ovpt "50 aniversario Banco Central"

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