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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1867-1870 |
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| In circulation to | 14 August 1900 |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE COSTA RICA 1867 (Translation: Republic of Costa Rica) |
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| Reverse lettering | AMERICA CENTRAL CINCO PESOS 21 Q G. W. (Translation: Central America Five Pesos 21 Karats) |
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Costa Rica's gold coinage of this period was struck under contract at the Philadelphia Mint, a common arrangement for Central American republics that lacked domestic minting infrastructure capable of producing consistent fine-metal coinage. The Philadelphia connection accounts for the relative technical uniformity seen across surviving examples compared to earlier San José issues.
The .875 gold standard aligns with the old Spanish colonial fineness — a deliberate choice as Costa Rica navigated trade relationships that still depended on compatibility with regional Spanish-derived monetary conventions well into the 1870s.