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25 Céntimos Small size
| Issuer | Banco Central de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1983-1989 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Costa Rica's aluminum coinage of this period was a direct response to chronic metal cost pressures that had made bronze and brass flans economically untenable by the early 1980s. The switch to aluminum was part of a broader austerity-driven retooling of the circulating series, coinciding with the debt crisis that forced Costa Rica into IMF restructuring in 1981 — the first Latin American nation to formally default in that cycle.
The KM#188 series spans three distinct size variants; this third subtype is the smallest, introduced as the centime's purchasing power continued to erode through the decade.