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1 Centavo
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Chile |
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| Year | 1975 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 CENTAVO 1975 (Translation: 1 Centavo 1975) |
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Chile's 1975 centavo issues were economic ghosts almost from the moment they were struck. The Pinochet government's post-coup monetary reforms had already set the stage for runaway inflation that would, within a few years, render the entire centavo denomination functionally worthless. The aluminium alloy choice reflected not design preference but raw material desperation — copper was too valuable to waste on the smallest denomination.
KM#203 belongs to the short window before the 1975 monetary reform replaced the escudo with the new peso at a rate of 1,000 to one, wiping centavo-denominated coins from circulation permanently.