1/2 Peso Pattern

Costa Rica's monetary situation in 1850 was genuinely chaotic — the young republic was still working through the transition away from colonial-era macuquina coinage, and standardized decimal currency remained aspirational rather than functional. Pattern issues from this period were exploratory, produced to test designs and denominations before any legislative commitment to strike them for circulation. KM#Pn1 is the only pattern recorded for this denomination and year, suggesting the half peso concept was quietly abandoned — likely because the financial infrastructure to support a coherent peso-based system simply wasn't yet in place.