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1/2 Sol
| Issuer | Casa Nacional de Moneda, Lima |
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| Year | 1907-1917 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#203 |
| Obverse description | The Peruvian national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a quartered shield bearing a vicuna in the upper left canton, a cinchona tree in the upper right, and a cornucopia in the base, all encircled by a civic wreath tied at the bottom with flanking palm and laurel branches. The circular legend REPUBLICA PERUANA arcs along the left periphery, with LIMA and the fineness designation 9 DECS. FINO appearing in the upper field, and the assayer initials F.G. alongside the mint mark at lower right. The date appears prominently in the exergue below the shield. |
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| Mintage | 1907 LIMA FG-JR - - 1,000,000 1908 LIMA FG-JR - overdate variety exists - 30,000 1914 LIMA FG-JR - - 173,000 1915 LIMA FG-JR - - 570,000 1916 LIMA FG - - 384,000 1916 LIMA FG-JR - - 1917 LIMA FG-JR - - 178,000 |
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Peru's fractional silver coinage of this period was struck under contract arrangements that occasionally shifted production responsibilities between Lima and foreign mints, though KM#203 remained a Lima product throughout. The 1907 start date coincides with a broader monetary reorganization following Peru's slow fiscal recovery from the War of the Pacific, which had devastated the country's silver reserves and left the coinage system in disarray for nearly two decades.
Production ran through 1917, the year Peru suspended most silver coinage as wartime metal pressures drove bullion values uncomfortably close to face value.