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20 Centavos Province of Santander
| Issuer | Santander, State of |
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| Year | 1902 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | SANTANDER C 20 1902 |
| Reverse description | Central field displays the numeral '20' within a raised circular ring, mirroring the obverse design but struck in incuse or with a slightly different die orientation consistent with medal alignment. The surrounding legend, partially legible due to the crude striking quality typical of wartime emergency coinage, repeats elements of the provincial and denominational inscription. The overall appearance is rough and uniface-style in character, reflecting the emergency production circumstances of the Thousand Days War period. |
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Santander's 1902 brass emergency issues emerged from the Thousand Days War, the brutal Colombian civil war that ran from 1899 to 1902 and effectively collapsed the national monetary system in rebel-held territories. The federalist state governments, cut off from Bogotá's supply chains and facing a complete absence of usable small change, resorted to locally authorized fractional tokens to keep commerce functioning at all.
At 0.7 grams, this piece is featherlight even by emergency standards — closer to a token than a coin by any technical measure.