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10 Centavos Jaime Roldos
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#133 |
| Obverse description | Left-facing bust of Jaime Roldós Aguilera, former President of Ecuador, occupying the central field, with his name inscribed alongside the national coat of arms and the country name REPÚBLICA DEL ECUADOR as the surrounding legend. Star ornaments flank the honoree's name. The design commemorates Roldós as both president and lawyer. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ecuador has used the U.S. dollar as its official currency since dollarization in 2000, which makes any coin bearing a centavo denomination something of a curiosity — these pieces function as fractional coinage within a dollarized system, with the cent effectively serving as the local subunit. The Jaime Roldós issue commemorates the populist president who died in a 1981 plane crash in the southern Andes, a death that has never stopped generating conspiracy theories given the concurrent deaths of Panama's Omar Torrijos five months later under nearly identical circumstances.
KM#133 places this in a commemorative circulation series rather than a standard issue.