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10 Centavos Province of Santander

Issuer Santander, State of
Year 1902
Type Emergency coin
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Reverse script Latin
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Mintage 1902: ND (1902)
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Santander's 1902 issue belongs to the chaotic monetary environment of the Thousand Days War, the Colombian civil conflict that ran from 1899 to 1902 and effectively severed provincial administrations from Bogotá's central authority. Individual departments and municipalities issued their own emergency coinage and paper money out of necessity, not ambition. Santander was among the more active issuers.

At 0.5 grams, these circulated hard in a region where metallic currency of any kind was preferable to the collapsing paper peso. The Hernández reference corpus remains the primary scholarly tool for sorting these provincial issues.

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