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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco Central de Nicaragua |
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| Year | 1972 |
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| Weight | 4 g |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, the Spanish conquistador and founder of Nicaragua's principal cities, rendered in high relief at center within a beaded inner circle. The portrait depicts the subject with a full beard and period colonial attire including a ruffled collar. The circular legend REPUBLICA DE NICARAGUA arcs along the upper periphery, while the date 1972 appears in the lower field flanked by four five-pointed stars on each side. A fine beaded border frames the entire design. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE NICARAGUA * * 1972 * * (Translation: Republic of Nicaragua) |
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The .2a designation marks a compositional shift driven by rising nickel prices in the early 1970s, when several Latin American mints quietly swapped solid nickel blanks for cheaper clad steel without changing the surface appearance of the coin. Nicaragua made this transition while the Somoza regime was channeling state resources toward political consolidation rather than monetary infrastructure — the coinage budget was not a priority.
Within two years of this issue, the catastrophic Managua earthquake of December 1972 killed thousands and effectively destroyed the capital, disrupting coin distribution networks and leaving many issues from this period in unusually uncirculated condition simply because they never reached the public.