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50 000 Pesos Mariano Ospina Perez
| Issuer | Banco de la República (Colombia) |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The central field is enclosed by a finely rendered laurel wreath tied at the base, within which a multi-line commemorative inscription is arranged. Above the wreath, three lines in the upper field state the denomination and metallic specifications: 50.000 PESOS / 1/4 ONZA ORO FINO / LEY 0.900. Within the wreath, the legend reads PARA / LA DEMOCRACIA COLOMBIANA / VALE MAS / UN PRESIDENTE MUERTO / QUE UN PRESIDENTE FUGITIVO / 9 DE ABRIL, 1948, referencing the famous declaration of President Ospina Pérez during the Bogotazo of April 9, 1948. The entire design is framed by a dentilated border consistent with the obverse. |
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Ospina Pérez served as Colombian president from 1946 to 1950, a period that included the April 1948 assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in Bogotá — the spark that ignited La Violencia, a civil conflict that ultimately killed an estimated 200,000 Colombians over the following decade. His administration's handling of that crisis remains one of the most contested chapters in Colombian political history.
The 1991 issue date places this coin at a pivotal constitutional moment: Colombia was in the process of replacing its 1886 constitution, with the new charter adopted that same July.