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1/4 Balboa Pattern, Uniface Obverse, Piefort
| Issuer | Panama |
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| Year | 1982 |
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| Value | 1/4 Balboa (1/4 PAB) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Uniface reverse: the reverse die was not employed for this piefort pattern strike, leaving the reverse as a plain, undesigned planchet surface. The field shows the natural texture of the gold alloy blank, with no legends, devices, or inscriptions of any kind, consistent with a uniface obverse piefort trial piece. |
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Panama's pattern coinage of the early 1980s emerged from a period of political transition following Omar Torrijos's death in a plane crash in July 1981. Whether this piefort was produced as a genuine trial piece for a proposed gold-alloy circulation issue or purely as a numismatic speculation by the mint contractor is unresolved — no corresponding regular-issue gold quarter balboa entered circulation. The uniface striking itself suggests an early die approval stage, where only the obverse hub had been finalized.