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1/2 Real Costa Rica
| Issuer | Casa Nacional de Moneda de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1831-1845 |
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| Currency | Real (1824-1851) |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting three volcanic mountains within an oval cartouche, surmounted by a radiant sun with rays emanating upward across the upper field. A facing human figure or bust appears to the left of the mountains at the base of the central device. The date appears in the lower exergual area. The encircling legend reads REPUB•DEL CENT•DE AMER•, separated by bullet points, running along the raised inner border of the reeded rim. |
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| Mintage | 1831 CR E - - 1831 CR F - - 1843 CR M - - 1845 CR B - - |
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The Casa Nacional de Moneda operated in San José under the newly independent Central American federation and its successor states — Costa Rica did not gain full independent republic status until 1848, meaning these coins were struck during a period of genuine constitutional uncertainty about who, exactly, held monetary authority. The cob-style ancestry of earlier Spanish colonial coinage was still recent memory, and the hand-struck quality of these small silvers reflects a mint with limited technical infrastructure.
KM#20 is known with assayer mark variations across the production span.