10 Centavos

Colombia's silver fractional coinage of this period survived far longer than the political conditions that originally justified it. The country had emerged from the Thousand Days War (1899–1902) with its monetary system in ruins — paper currency had been printed so recklessly that public trust in anything but hard silver took decades to rebuild. The 1910 monetary reform anchored fractional circulation back to silver precisely because legislators knew the population would accept nothing else.

The series ran through 1942, by which point wartime silver demands were already pressuring treasuries across Latin America to abandon the metal entirely. Colombia followed shortly after.