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500 Colones Central Bank
| Issuer | Banco Central de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2000 - - 5,000,000 2000 - Proof - 500 |
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Costa Rica's 500 colones brass coin was introduced as part of a broader monetary reform effort to reduce dependence on high-denomination paper notes, which had suffered persistent devaluation through the 1980s and 1990s as the country managed recurring balance-of-payments crises and IMF structural adjustment programs. Shifting that value into a circulating coin was a deliberate policy choice, not a routine update.
KM#236 is the first year of the type.