Catalog
1/2 Centavo
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Chile |
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| Year | 1883-1894 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1883 So - overdate variety exists - 714,000 1884 So - overdate variety exists - 104,000 1885 So - - 132,000 1886 So - overdate variety exists - 469,000 1888 So - overdate variety exists - 294,000 1890 So - overdate variety exists - 70,000 1893 So - overdate variety exists - 71,000 1894 So - - 251,000 |
| Additional information |
Chile's half centavo had a troubled existence from the start. By the 1880s, the denomination was essentially worthless in practical commerce — a full centavo could barely buy anything, and half of one was largely ignored by the public. The series continued into 1894 more from institutional inertia than economic necessity, and surviving examples in circulated grades are genuinely scarce precisely because few bothered to handle them carefully enough for them to last.