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5 Centavos
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Chile |
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| Year | 1920-1938 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | A condor with wings spread, perched atop a rocky outcrop, facing left. The bird is rendered in high relief with fine feather detail, its head turned slightly toward the viewer. A beaded border frames the design. The circular legend REPUBLICA DE CHILE runs along the upper periphery in raised Latin capitals. |
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| Reverse description | The denomination numeral '5' appears prominently in the upper center of the field, flanked by the Santiago mint mark 'S' above and to the left. Below the numeral, the inscription CENTAVOS is struck in bold capitals, with the date beneath. The entire central design is enclosed within a wreath of laurel and oak branches tied with a ribbon at the base, with a beaded border surrounding the whole composition. |
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Chile's copper-nickel minor coinage of this period survived an extraordinary stretch of monetary instability. The peso collapsed repeatedly against gold during the 1920s, and the Great Depression hammered nitrate exports — the fiscal backbone of the Chilean state — driving currency reform efforts throughout the 1930s. Minor denominations like this one continued circulating largely because there was nothing practical to replace them with during the successive monetary crises.
Production ran across multiple years under the Santiago mint, with annualized mintage figures varying sharply depending on budget allocations and metal availability.