DescriptionThe first issue of Panama coins was struck on a standard that no other country had ever used. This coin is equivalent to the contemporary French 5 francs coin, a standard that Colombia had used for their late 19th century peso, but the supposed Panamanian unit would have been equal to 10 francs.The North America category: USA, Canada, Mexico, the Central American nations: Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Panama, and a bunch of island nations and other political entities in the Caribbean Sea. Greenland we’re putting with Europe. By that criterion we should put Martinique and Aruba with Europe too, but we’re not. I’m not even sure why. Doesn’t matter anyway. Almost all of you are searching for modern coins by country, not by region.By “Modern World Coins” we mean here, generally, the round, flat, shiny metal objects that people have used for money and still do. “Modern,” though, varies by location. There was some other way they were doing their economies, and then they switched over to “modern coins,” then they went toward paper money, now we’re all going toward digital, a future in which kids look at a coin and say “What’s that?” We’ll say: “We used to use those to buy things.” Kids will ask “How?” The main catalog reference is the Standard Catalog of World Coins, to which the KM numbers refer.
