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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26606527, member: 10461&quot;]<b><b><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Panama: 1947 silver Balboa</font></font></b></b></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">PCGS MS64.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/43640625" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/43640625" rel="nofollow">Cert. #43640625</a>.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://en.numista.com/18304" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/18304" rel="nofollow">Numista-18304</a>, <a href="https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/panama-balboa-km-13-1931-1947-cuid-1081650-duid-1513291" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/panama-balboa-km-13-1931-1947-cuid-1081650-duid-1513291" rel="nofollow">Krause-Mishler-13</a>.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">.900 silver, .7734 oz.&nbsp; Diameter: 38.1 mm.&nbsp; Weight: 26.73 g.&nbsp; Mintage: 500,000.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">These coins were struck for Panama by the United States Mint in Philadelphia.&nbsp; They were struck to the exact standards of the old US silver dollars, though the United States had ceased production of any silver dollars of its own by 1947.&nbsp; The denomination was named for Spanish explorer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_de_Balboa" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_de_Balboa" rel="nofollow">Vasco Núñez de Balboa</a>, who was the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean when he crossed the isthmus of Panama.&nbsp; Despite its orientation in the slab and in these images, the helmeted portrait of Balboa is technically the reverse of this coin.&nbsp; To this day, Panamanian coins continue to be struck by the US mint, on US planchet stock.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">I got this coin in trade for another, very lustrous <a href="https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/6286830-008/65/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/6286830-008/65/" rel="nofollow">NGC MS65</a> 1947 Balboa, from my friend Jason Foster.&nbsp; Since Jason has some Panamanian family history, I figured he should have the nicer example and traded my MS65 for his MS64, in a &quot;friendly downgrade&quot;.&nbsp; This MS64 is still nice enough, though.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Ex-Jason Foster, Canton, North Carolina.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1695974[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1695975[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1695976[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1695977[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1695978[/ATTACH] </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #ffffff">017450</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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