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5 Centésimos Carlos Finlay
| Issuer | Panama |
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| Year | 1975-1982 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Royal Canadian Mint of Ottawa,Canada (1908-date) FM Franklin Mint (The Franklin Mint), Wawa, Pennsylvania, United States (1964-date) |
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Carlos Finlay was Cuban, not Panamanian — his appearance on a Panamanian coin reflects the broader Central American claim to his work identifying the mosquito as the vector for yellow fever, a discovery that made the Panama Canal project survivable. Without the subsequent mosquito eradication campaign it enabled, the French failure at the canal would likely have repeated itself under American administration.