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20 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Central de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | Colón (1896-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | COSTA RICA AMERICA CENTRAL REPUBLICA DE COSTA RICA 1994 (Translation: Costa Rica Central America Republic of Costa Rica) |
| Reverse description | Denomination numeral '20' is displayed prominently in the centre of the field within a nonagonal (nine-sided) inner rim, with the legend COLONES inscribed below. Coffee branches with leaves and berries flank the central value on either side, and a decorative ribbon extends behind the numeral. The initials B.C.C.R. (Banco Central de Costa Rica) appear in the lower field, and the denomination '20' is additionally rendered in Braille characters beneath the central design. |
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The KM#216.3 designation marks a specific composition variant within a long-running series — Costa Rica's 20 Colones type went through multiple substrate changes as the Banco Central responded to fluctuating raw material costs and counterfeiting pressures during the 1980s and 1990s. The shift to nickel-plated stainless steel was a practical response to the economics of a denomination that saw heavy daily circulation in a country where coinage infrastructure was tightly managed from San José.
The .3 suffix distinguishes this from earlier brass and other transitional strikes in the same design family.