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100 Sucres Antonio José de Sucre
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Weight | 3.55 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 · BICENTENARIO NATALICIO · 100 ANTONIO JOSE DE SUCRE · CIEN SUCRES · (Translation: 100 · Bicentennial of birth · 100 Antonio José de Sucre · One hundred sucres ·) |
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Antonio José de Sucre, the Venezuelan-born general who secured Ecuadorian independence at the Battle of Pichincha in 1822, lent his name to Ecuador's currency for over a century before dollarization ended it in 2000. By 1995, inflation had so badly eroded the sucre's purchasing power that a 100-sucre coin — worth fractions of a U.S. cent by the decade's end — was essentially a rounding unit. The shift to bimetallic construction reflects the monetary instability of the period; higher-denomination coins required cheaper production methods to justify their existence at all.