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4 Escudos Republic of Colombia
| Issuer | Republic of Colombia |
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| Year | 1826 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Liberty facing left, her hair elaborately dressed and bound with a headband, rendered in neoclassical style. The effigy occupies the central field, with fine detail visible in the curled tresses falling to the nape of the neck. The circular legend REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA arcs around the periphery, with the date 1826 displayed in the lower exergual area between two raised dots. The coin's milled border frames the design with a fine toothed rim. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Colombia's early republican mint system was inherited almost entirely from the Spanish colonial apparatus, and the Bogotá mint — operating continuously since 1627 — struck these transitional gold pieces with equipment and assayer conventions that changed little after independence. The 1826 date falls squarely in the Gran Colombia period, the short-lived federation uniting present-day Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama under Simón Bolívar's political vision, which collapsed entirely by 1831.
KM#86 is known with multiple assayer initials, and attribution without confirmed assayer identification leaves provenance incomplete.