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Costa
Rica Now With Its Own Coin Mint
Costa Rica now has its own mint following an
investment of us$4 millin dollars of Swiss
and Costa Rican business interests, which is
to provide coins for the Banco Central de
Costa Rica and other Central American and
Caribbean countries.
The Mint Costa Rica plant was inaugurated on
Tuesday by government authorities, Banco
Central and Catholic church officials.
Located in Ipis de Goicoechea, the plant is
expected to produce up to 100 million coins
a year.
The company, Amera International AG, says it
will be investing another us$6 million
dollars in the near future.
Amera also provides services of storing and
the destruction of coins, in effect
completing a life cycle of each coin.
The plant in Costa Rica will allow the Banco
Central to have an "immediate" availability
of coins and at lower cost. |
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