2,000 Costa Rican Colones banknote (Mauro Fernández Acuña)

2,000 Colones (Issued 2009-2015)

The 2,000 Colones note forms part of the Modern Colon Issue family issued by the Banco Central de Costa Rica, a series that spans multiple denominations sharing a cohesive design language rooted in Costa Rican national heritage and natural biodiversity. Across the series, each denomination pairs a distinguished historical portrait on the front with a celebrated element of Costa Rica’s extraordinary natural environment on the reverse, creating a visually unified yet individually distinctive set. The 2,000 Colones denomination stands apart through its cool blue and violet colour palette and its celebration of Costa Rica’s coral reef ecosystems, making it one of the most visually striking notes in the series. Its polymer-influenced substrate and modern security architecture place it firmly within the contemporary era of Central American currency design.

On the front, the dominant feature is a finely engraved portrait of Mauro Fernández Acuña, the renowned Costa Rican statesman and educator credited with establishing the country’s free public education system in the late nineteenth century, rendered in detailed intaglio engraving to the left of centre against a pale blue background. His portrait shows a bearded gentleman with short, neatly combed hair, depicted with considerable depth and tonal precision characteristic of high-quality intaglio printing. To the right of the portrait, a classical colonial-era building is depicted in fine line engraving, its arched facade and colonnaded structure rendered in blue-grey tones against the note’s overall cool ground colour. In the upper right corner, a red outline map of Costa Rica appears, clearly identifiable by the country’s distinctive coastal shape, providing both a national identity marker and a secondary visual security reference. The large numeral “2” appears prominently in the lower right in a deep blue-violet tint, accompanied by the bold text “MIL COLONES” in dark lettering, clearly stating the denomination. The words “COSTA RICA” appear in vertical orientation along the right-hand edge. Repeating microtext reading “COSTA RICA” and “2000” forms a dense security background pattern across the entire face of the note, visible as a fine tessellated watermark-like layer in the pale blue ground. Two facsimile signatures appear beneath the central vignette, one labelled “PRESIDENTE” and one below, representing the signatories of the Banco Central de Costa Rica at the time of issue. A series of black rectangular bars along the left edge serve as tactile features for visually impaired users. A security thread is embedded vertically through the note, visible as a thin dark stripe integrated into the paper substrate, and a translucent numeral “2” appears as a secondary denomination indicator in the lower right quadrant.

The reverse presents a vivid and naturalistically rendered underwater scene depicting a coral reef environment identified by the inscription “ARRECIFE CORALINO” in the upper right corner, confirming the theme as Costa Rica’s coral reef habitat. Dominating the composition is a large, realistically illustrated shark swimming through the reef scene, depicted in grey-green and olive tones with considerable anatomical detail; a scientific label beside the creature reads “Tiburón toro, Carcharhinus leucas,” identifying it as a bull shark. The surrounding reef scene features branching coral formations in warm amber, yellow, and ochre tones, alongside smaller tropical fish depicted in bright yellows and oranges scattered throughout the mid-ground and background. A vivid red starfish is positioned prominently in the lower foreground, its bold colour providing a strong contrast to the cooler blues of the note’s background. Smaller marine creatures, including additional fish and a secondary shark or ray visible towards the lower right, add depth and ecological richness to the scene. The serial number “A024375971” appears twice across the top of the note in dark ink, in two separate positions following standard dual-print security convention. The large numeral “2” appears to the left in blue, with “MIL COLONES” printed beneath in dark text, mirroring the denomination presentation seen on the front. The issuing authority name “BANCO CENTRAL DE COSTA RICA” is printed in a bold dark strip across the lower portion of the central vignette, providing authoritative identification of the issuing institution. Fine microtext bands run horizontally across the upper section of the reverse, adding a further layer of security detail visible under magnification.

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