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100 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la República (Colombia) |
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| Year | 1992-2012 |
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| Currency | Peso decimalized (1847-date) |
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| Obverse description | The Colombian national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a condor with outstretched wings perched atop a shield divided into three sections, flanked by laurel and palm branches. The shield bears the Phrygian cap above a pomegranate flanked by cornucopias, with horizontal wavy lines in the base representing the oceans. The circular legend REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA arcs around the upper periphery, with the date appearing at the bottom of the field below the arms. The rim is bordered by a continuous row of small beads. |
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| Edge | Lettered and milled sections alternating, inscribed with the value repeated twice between two reeded sections |
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Colombia's shift to aluminium bronze for this denomination in 1992 was driven largely by the Banco de la República's ongoing battle against coin melting — earlier copper-nickel issues were being pulled from circulation and smelted for their metal value as commodity prices climbed. The alloy change made the economics of melting unfavorable without significantly altering the coin's appearance in pocket change.
The KM#285.1 and #285.2 varieties reflect edge and die modifications introduced partway through the run, documented in Restrepo's Colombian reference as distinct enough to catalog separately.