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50 Centavos Pattern
| Issuer | Nicaragua |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped bust of Augusto César Sandino occupies the central field, rendered in bold relief. The legend REPUBLICA DE NICARAGUA arcs along the upper periphery, while the abbreviated attribution A. C. SANDINO and the date 1980 appear along the lower border. The portrait is presented in a plain, unadorned field characteristic of a pattern strike intended for official approval. |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral 50 dominates the central field in bold, oversized digits, with the denomination CENTAVOS inscribed in smaller lettering immediately below. The Mexican Mint mark Mo appears beneath the denomination in the lower field. The motto EN DIOS CONFIAMOS arcs along the upper periphery, while PATRIA LIBRE O MORIR curves along the lower border, both legends in raised Latin lettering following the rim. |
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Nicaragua's 1980 coinage program was undertaken in the immediate aftermath of the Sandinista revolution, which had toppled Somoza in July 1979. Pattern pieces from this period reflect the new government's rapid effort to replace imagery associated with the old regime. Many proposed designs from 1980 never reached circulation, rejected or revised as the FSLN consolidated its political priorities alongside an economy already destabilized by civil war debt.
Whether this specific pattern was abandoned due to design, alloy cost, or political revision is unrecorded — copper-nickel was ultimately retained for circulating coinage of this denomination into the early 1980s.