Costa Rica 100 Colones banknote 1906-1911 Banco Comercial de Costa Rica P-S145s.
Obverse: Portrait of Julio Acosta García at center. In the top, the issuer name "El Banco Comercial de Costa Rica".
Reverse: Back seen with detailed shore scenes at left and right with head of Liberty at center. In the top, the issuer name "Banco Comercial de Costa Rica".
Printer: Waterlow & Sons Limited, London.
Julio Acosta García (23 May 1872 – 6 July 1954) served as President of Costa Rica from 1920 to 1924.
He was born in San Ramón, Alajuela, to Don Juan Vicente Acosta and Doña Jesus García.
Having served as foreign minister since 1915, after the 1917 coup by the brothers Federico Tinoco and Joaquín Tinoco, Acosta escaped to El Salvador, but led a counter-revolution, entering San José on 13 September 1919. He was elected president on 7 December.
In 1921 he nearly went to war with Panama over a border dispute, which ended with intervention (including the landing of troops) by the United States.