2½ Centésimos "Panama Pill"
Features
| Issuer |
Panama
 |
|---|---|
| Period |
Republic (1903-date)
|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Year | 1904 |
| Value | 2½ Centesimos (2½ centésimos) (0.025 PAB) |
| Currency | Balboa (1904-date) |
| Composition | Srebro (.900) (Copper .100) |
| Weight | 1.25 g |
| Diameter | 10 mm |
| Shape | Okrągły |
| Technique | Frezowana |
| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Issued | 12 February 1905 |
| Demonetized | 31 August 1930 |
| Number | N# 20590 |
| References | KM# 1 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). |
Series: 1904 series
Obverse
(en) Portrait of Vasco Núñez de Balboa facing left. Name of the country above, date below.
Script: łaciński
Lettering:
REPUBLICA DE PANAMA
DIOS LEY LIBERTAD
BALBOA
1904
Reverse
Herb z siedmioma gwiazdami powyżej. Wartość literami i srebrna treść wokół.
Script: łaciński
Lettering:
DOS Y MEDIO CENTESIMOS DE BALBOA
⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆
PRO MUNDI BENEFICIO
G.1.25 LEY 0.900
Edge
Trzcina
Mint
United States Mint of Philadelphia, United States (1792-date)Comments
(en)
Balboa was a Spaniard, the first European to cross the Isthmus, to reach the Pacific by land and discover the Perlas Archipelago (1513). The seven stars represent the country's seven provinces at that time (there are now ten).
This coin is the smallest ever minted in the USA, thus its nickname "Panamá pill". It was needed to make the 12.5 cents = 1 real of the former Hispanic-American monetary system when added to a 10-cent coin.
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| Date | Mintage | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| 1904 | 
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400 000 | $ 22 | $ 26 | $ 37 | $ 140 | (en) Minted in 1905 | ||||||||
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Numista Rarity index: 22
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Bullion value: USD 2.45
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Actual srebro weight: 0.036 oz
Current srebro price: 67.75 USD/oz (see silver price 
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