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2 Décimos
| Issuer | Colombia |
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| Year | 1870-1872 |
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| Value | 2 Décimos (0.2 COP) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Liberty facing left, her hair drawn back and tied with a ribbon, occupying the central field. The circular legend ESTADOS UNIDOS DE COLOMBIA runs along the upper periphery, flanked by a beaded border. The date appears in the lower exergue area, separated from the effigy by a row of small five-pointed stars arranged in an arc. The portrait is rendered in a neoclassical style typical of mid-19th-century South American coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Colombia's 1863 constitution established the Estados Unidos de Colombia, a radically decentralized federation that handed monetary authority to individual states — a situation chaotic enough that the national government scrambled to reassert control over coinage by the late 1860s. These 2 Décimos pieces were struck at Bogotá during that reassertion, part of a decimal reform framework that had been legislated in 1853 but took nearly two decades to fully implement in metal.
The Hernández reference numbers spanning 229–233 indicate multiple die marriages across the three-year run — not unusual for Bogotá output of this period, where hand-prepared dies wore quickly.