Panama 1/2 Centesimo 1907 Coin Half Cent Bust Of Balboa Copper Nickel 16mm Km# 6.

Features

Issuer Panama

Period Republic (1903-date)

Type Standard circulation coin

Year 1907

Value ½ Centésimo de Balboa

0.005 PAB = USD 0.0050

Currency Balboa (1904-date)

Composition Copper-nickel (75% Copper, 25% Nickel)

Weight 2.5 g

Diameter 16 mm

Thickness 1.58 mm

Shape Round

Technique Milled

Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓

Number N# 5260

References KM# 6, Schön# 6

Obverse

Bust of Balboa facing left surrounded by legend.

Script: Latin

Lettering:

REPÚBLICA DE PANAMÁ

DIOS LEY LIBERTAD

1907

Translation:

Republic of Panama

God and Freedom

Reverse

Denomination in words in a circle of pearls

Script: Latin

Lettering:

MEDIO

CENTÉSIMO

DE

BALBOA

Translation:

Half

Centesimo

of a

Balboa

Edge

Plain

Mint

United States Mint, Philadelphia, United States (1792-date)

Comments

Balboa was a Spaniard, first European who crossed the Isthmus, reached the Pacific by land and discovered the Perlas Archipelago (1513).