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The E-Sylum: Volume 26, Number 50, December 10, 2023, Article 26

STACK'S BOWERS COSTA RICA BANKNOTES

Stack's Bowers Director of World Currency Auctions Aris Maragoudakis published an article about the Costa Rica banknote collection the firm is offering next month. -Editor

  costa rican banknote highlights

Having handled the Eldorado Collection, and the Rosenman collection just last year, we certainly aren't strangers to rare Latin American paper money. Even still, I have been in awe of these notes since I first laid eyes on them. I don't quite feel as though my voice alone should properly present this section so I reached out to a dear friend of mine, no stranger to rare notes, who belongs on the Mt. Rushmore of World Paper Money. He lends his voice here to properly introduce this collection.

Foreword to this Costa Rica selection by Pablo Hoffman of Nuevo Mundo World Paper Money.

I have been into paper money as Nuevo Mundo World Paper Money for a very long time. Costa Rica has always been one of my favorite countries to collect and deal in. I've seen a lot of Costa Rica notes… a LOT. However, when the group in the upcoming Stacks Bowers auction came along, I was stunned. This group includes not one or two, but many notes I have never seen before, and quite a few that I know are unlikely to exist in any collection, anywhere.

When the Frederick R. Mayer collection of Costa Rican banknotes was sold in New York City in 2008, I was there. It was thought at that time to be the pinnacle presentation of Costa Rican banknotes ever brought to light. And yet once again in New York City this January, Stack's Bowers Galleries and its Director of World Currency Auctions, Aris Maragoudakis, will bring to auction a new milestone in Costa Rica numismatic history and the collecting of its banknotes.

Collector interest in Costa Rican banknotes has been gradually but steadily ramping up over recent years. It seems likely that we may soon see a new impetus right off the charts. Buckle up, because we are about to see spectacular items never before seen and accurately described in a major public auction. There are issuers never before seen. There are signed and dated examples where previously only specimens or proofs were known. There are denominations and varieties previously unknown. And there are unique pieces that will surface here, and are likely to pass into the most powerful collections on the planet, probably never to be seen again in our lifetimes.

The auction sale of this historic collection will take place at the New York International Numismatic Convention in January, 2024. I certainly plan to be there… come say hello! As a favor, I am making myself available through Stack's Bowers Galleries to discuss with you collectors and share our thoughts about some of these specific notes. (Please set up through Aris)

At last month's Whitman Baltimore Expo I took a (poor) photo of a display of some highlights at the Stack's Bowers table. -Editor

  2023-11-09 Stack's Bowers table paper money
  2023-11-09 Stack's Bowers table Costa Rica note

To read the complete article, see:
INTRODUCING COSTA RICAN HIGHLIGHTS FOR NYINC (https://stacksbowers.com/introducing-costa-rican-highlights-for-nyinc/)

To read earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
FEATURED WEB PAGE: FREDERICK MAYER COLLECTION OF COSTA RICAN SILVER COINS (https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v12n49a23.html)
WAYNE'S NUMISMATIC DIARY: NOVEMBER 12, 2023, PART 2 (https://www.coinbooks.org/v26/esylum_v26n46a24.html)

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