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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1661306, member: 12789&quot;]In this case the specimen notes are much more common in higher grade than the issued notes.&nbsp; Banco Internacional was absorbed by the Costa Rican Central Bank in ca. 1944 and all their notes were called in and overprinted.&nbsp; As a result they are fairly scarce - particularly in high grades.&nbsp; There is a lot of interest in the notes because they are the only notes with the Mona Lisa portrait on them.&nbsp; It is an enigmatic issue, one does wonder why Mona Lisa was chosen for the note other than perhaps a bank official was an art afficianado.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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