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1/4 Balboa Pattern
| Issuer | Panama |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | An armoured bust of Vasco Nunez de Balboa, helmeted and facing left, is depicted in the central field in a classical portrait style. The denomination in full, UN CUARTO DE BALBOA, arches around the periphery, with a decorative wreath framing the effigy and completing the design. |
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Panama's 1988 quarter Balboa pattern was produced during a period of acute political crisis — Manuel Noriega's government was under U.S. sanctions, the economy was being deliberately strangled, and the national banking system had been shut down for weeks. Patterns from this year were almost certainly struck as part of continuity planning rather than any genuine intent to circulate new coinage.
KM#Pn10 is sparsely documented, with no confirmed mintage figures published.