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| Issuer | Ecuador |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 CENTAVOS |
| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
Ecuador's 10 centavos coinage of the 1940s was struck during a period of considerable monetary instability, as the sucre came under sustained pressure from wartime commodity inflation. The shift to copper-nickel for this denomination reflected broader Latin American trends of the period, with silver increasingly reserved for higher-value issues or abandoned altogether as silver prices climbed.