For reasons best known to the issuing banks, several early Costa Rican bank notes show vignettes of one and possibly two British Queens – although one was merely a Princess at time of issue.
Not Queen Victoria: The El Banco Anglo-Costa-Ricense 50 pesos specimen of 1 January 1864 (P-S110s) sold at Spink’s NYINC sale with its central vignette showing Princess Alexandra of Wales. (Image courtesy and © Spink)
One such note formed part of the “The Ibrahim Salem Collection of South America” offered by Spink in their Jan
