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20 Balboas A Century Uniting the World
| Issuer | Panama |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Thickness | 3.15 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DE PANAMÁ ********* 2016 (Translation: Republic of Panama For the Benefit of the World) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Panama's centennial commemorative program has produced some genuinely overcrowded designs, but this issue marks the 2016 centenary of the Canal's formal opening to commercial traffic — an engineering project that killed an estimated 25,000 workers during the French phase alone, before the United States resumed construction in 1904. The balboa denomination itself was pegged one-to-one with the U.S. dollar at inception and has never floated independently.
The .9999 fineness is notably purer than the traditional .925 standard for commemorative silver, a deliberate specification choice by the issuing authority.