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5 Balboas Baron von Richthofen
| Issuer | Panama |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Thickness | 2 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the national arms of Panama, flanked and surmounted by nine five-pointed stars arranged in an arc. The legend REPUBLICA DE PANAMA curves along the upper periphery, with the date 1988 and the fineness inscription 1 OZ. DE PLATA FINO appearing in the middle field below the arms. The denomination 5.00 UN BALBOAS is inscribed along the lower periphery. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Manfred von Richthofen died in April 1918, shot down over the Somme — almost certainly by ground fire rather than by René Fonck or Roy Brown, despite both men's claims. Panama's decision to commemorate him seven decades later was purely commercial: the country ran an aggressive collector-coin program through the 1980s issuing silver rounds under foreign-sounding names to tap the international numismatic market, with little pretense of genuine national connection to the subject.
The X# prefix in the reference confirms its status as a non-circulating exonumia issue rather than a mainstream KM-catalogued coin.