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25 Centavos Oswaldo Guayasamin
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 2023 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central effigy of Oswaldo Guayasamin, the renowned Ecuadorian painter, draftsman, and sculptor, rendered in portrait form. The national coat of arms of Ecuador appears alongside the portrait. The legend REPÚBLICA DEL ECUADOR is inscribed around the upper periphery, with the honoree's name OSWALDO GUAYASAMIN flanked by stars appearing in the field. |
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| Reverse description | Large numeral '25' dominates the central field, overlaying a stylized graphic device of diagonal lines suggesting motion or artistic brushwork. The legend BANCO CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR curves along the upper periphery, while VEINTICINCO CENTAVOS (Twenty-Five Centavos) is inscribed along the lower periphery. The date AÑO 2023 appears to the lower left of the central numeral. |
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Ecuador has used the US dollar as its official currency since 2000, following a catastrophic banking collapse and currency crisis that wiped out savings across the country. These collector-issue centavo pieces carry no practical exchange function — they circulate symbolically, if at all, within a fully dollarized economy that has no use for fractional domestic coinage.
Guayasamín died in 1999, the year before dollarization, never seeing his face on an Ecuadorian coin.