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5 Centavos Cornucopias
| Issuer | Colombia |
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| Year | 1902 |
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| Currency | Peso decimalized (1847-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The central device features the numeral 5 displayed within a raised circular cartouche, flanked symmetrically by two cornucopias with their mouths facing outward and downward, overflowing with fruit and foliage. The scrolled tips of the cornucopias meet at the top of the central cartouche. The arc legend GRAM. 1.250 curves along the upper left periphery and LEI 0.666 along the upper right, separated by dot stops, with CENT. inscribed along the lower rim. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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Colombia's 1902 silver coinage was struck under extraordinary duress — the country was in the final, grinding phase of the Thousand Days War, a civil conflict between Liberal and Conservative factions that killed an estimated 100,000 people and left the national treasury functionally destroyed. The reduced fineness of .666 reflects deliberate debasement; prewar Colombian silver had run considerably finer.
The Restrepo reference places this among a cluster of issues whose actual mint of origin remains disputed among specialists.