Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Chile |
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| Year | 1854-1867 |
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| Diameter | 27 mm |
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| Obverse description | The Chilean national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a quartered shield bearing a five-pointed star, flanked by two supporters: a huemul (Andean deer) to the left and a condor to the right, both rampant. Above the shield rises an elaborate crest of three ostrich plumes. The supporters stand upon a decorative foliate base. The circular legend REPUBLICA DE CHILE arcs along the upper periphery, with the Santiago mint mark (So) at the right and the date below at the bottom of the field, all within a finely beaded border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Chile's 10 Peso gold coinage of this period was produced at the Santiago mint during a stretch of relative fiscal stability underwritten almost entirely by silver revenues from the Atacama mining boom — gold coinage was a prestige instrument as much as a commercial one, and much of it moved through trade circuits rather than ordinary retail exchange. The Fr#45 designation places it firmly within the French-influenced monetary framework Chile adopted following independence, when the new republic consciously modeled its coinage standards on those of the Latin world.
The .900 fineness matches the contemporaneous Latin Monetary Union standard, though Chile was not a member — a deliberate alignment intended to facilitate acceptance in European trade.