Catalog
5 Cents Magnetic
| Issuer | Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago |
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| Year | 2017-2023 |
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| Composition | Copper plated steel |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TOGETHER WE ASPIRE TOGETHER WE ACHIEVE 2017 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
The shift to copper plated steel for Trinidad and Tobago's five-cent piece was driven by the same commodity economics that pushed dozens of issuing authorities away from solid copper and bronze alloys in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries — the metal value of older coins was creeping uncomfortably close to face value. The magnetic property is strictly a byproduct of the steel core, useful for automated coin sorting but not an engineering goal in itself.