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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Peru |
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| Year | 1947-1951 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA PERUANA 1947 (Translation: Republic of Peru (year)) |
| Reverse description | Large numeral 10 occupies the central field to the right, with the denomination legend CENTAVOS inscribed in a straight line across the lower portion of the field. A single olive or laurel branch rises diagonally along the left side, its stem curving at the base across the lower field. The design is unframed within a beaded border. |
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Peru's shift to brass for this series came directly out of wartime metal allocation pressures that persisted well into the late 1940s. Silver had long since been abandoned for small denomination coinage, and the brass composition adopted here was part of a broader postwar rationalization of the Peruvian monetary system under the Bustamante and then Odría administrations — two governments that could not have been more politically opposed, yet both presided over the same coinage without alteration.