Panama 1981-FM 20 balboas KM-72
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This specimen was lot 2987 in Stephen Album sale 41 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2021), where it sold for $180. The catalog description[1] noted, "PANAMA: AV 20 balboas, 1981, 0.500 fineness, Figure of Eight Butterfly, in original slip, Proof." This is a product of the Franklin mint. There is another twenty balboas for 1981 (KM 71), struck in silver to honor Simon Bolivar.
Recorded mintage: 205 + 4,445 proofs.
Specification: 2.14 g, 0.500 fine gold.
Catalog reference: KM-72.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 41, featuring the Dick Nanta Collection of Giray Khans, Part II, the Charles Opitz Collection of Ethnographic Money, Part II, and the Allan F. Pacela Collection of Chinese Coins. Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.
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