Catalog
25 Cents Magnetic
| Issuer | Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago |
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| Year | 2017-2020 |
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| Thickness | 1.48 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 CENTS |
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| Additional information |
Trinidad and Tobago's switch to steel-core coinage for this denomination was part of a broader regional cost-cutting response to rising global copper and nickel prices, which made traditional cupro-nickel flans increasingly expensive to source. The magnetic variant replaced the solid cupro-nickel KM#32a without fanfare — no new design, no public announcement of note — making the two types externally identical and distinguishable only by a magnet or specific gravity test.