5 Córdobas Managua Cathedral

Nicaragua's commemorative silver program has leaned heavily on architectural subjects since the 2010s, and the Managua Cathedral — formally the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, completed in 2008 after over two decades of construction — is among the more geopolitically charged choices. The original Managua Cathedral was gutted by the 1972 earthquake that killed an estimated 10,000 people and destabilized the Somoza government, a disaster whose mishandled relief funds accelerated the Sandinista revolution seven years later.

The new structure, designed by Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta, was partly funded by Tom Monaghan of Domino's Pizza — an unusual patronage history for a national monument.