Puerto Rico never had its own mint. All coinage intended for the island required approval from and production by Spanish metropolitan authorities, making any pattern struck for Puerto Rican circulation a bureaucratic artifact as much as a numismatic one. This 1890 copper piece was part of Spain's brief, ultimately abandoned effort to provide the island with a dedicated decimal coinage before American occupation in 1898 rendered the question moot.
Puerto Rico never had its own mint. All coinage intended for the island required approval from and production by Spanish metropolitan authorities, making any pattern struck for Puerto Rican circulation a bureaucratic artifact as much as a numismatic one. This 1890 copper piece was part of Spain's brief, ultimately abandoned effort to provide the island with a dedicated decimal coinage before American occupation in 1898 rendered the question moot.