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5 Centavos Albizu
| Issuer | Puerto Rico |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Diameter | 18.6 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DE PUERTO RICO 5 CENTAVOS DE ALBIZU (Translation: Republic of Puerto Rico 5 Cents of Albizu) |
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Puerto Rico has no legal authority to mint currency — that power rests exclusively with the U.S. federal government — which makes this piece a political statement rather than a circulating coin. Issued by independence advocates, it takes its name from Pedro Albizu Campos, the Harvard-educated Nationalist Party leader whose imprisonment and alleged exposure to radiation experiments by U.S. federal authorities made him a martyred figure in Puerto Rican independence circles.
These are fantasy or protest issues, not recognized tender by any government.