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| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Chile |
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| Year | 1915-1917 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Additional information |
Chile's fractional silver coinage of this period was caught in a prolonged monetary crisis — the country had abandoned the gold standard in 1878 and spent decades lurching between inconvertible paper and periodic attempts to restabilize. The .720 fineness used here reflects a deliberate reduction from earlier higher-purity issues, a compromise struck to keep silver coinage in circulation without hemorrhaging metal reserves during continued fiscal instability.
KM#152.4 is a subtype within a long-running series; the variant designations across the 152 sequence track die and fineness changes that accumulated over roughly three decades of interrupted production.