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| Issuer | Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1892 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Piedforts — struck at twice the normal planchet thickness — were produced almost exclusively as presentation pieces or for official archives, never for circulation. Costa Rica's 1892 nickel piedfort examples were almost certainly struck at the Casa de Moneda de San José or through a contracted European mint during a period when the country was actively reforming its decimal coinage system following the monetary law of 1889.
KM#P4 is among the more obscure Central American piedfort entries, with surviving population figures essentially unknown.