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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Nicaragua |
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| Year | 1983-1985 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | EN DIOS CONFIAMOS 50 CENTAVOS PATRIA LIBRE O MORIR (Translation: In God we trust Free homeland or death.) |
| Edge | Reeded |
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| Additional information |
Nicaragua's coinage underwent a material shift in the early 1980s as the Sandinista government, facing crippling foreign debt and a U.S. trade embargo, could no longer reliably source or afford the nickel required for earlier alloys. The switch to nickel clad steel was a fiscal necessity, not a design decision.
KM#42a distinguishes this clad version from its predecessor. The embargo's downstream effects on raw material procurement made even minor metallurgical changes a matter of state economics.