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50 000 Pesos Mariano Ospina Perez
| Issuer | Banco de la República (Colombia) |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Value | 50 000 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust effigy of Mariano Ospina Pérez occupying the central field, rendered in high relief with fine portrait detail. The legend REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA arcs along the upper periphery, flanked by a fine dentilated border. The commemorative dates 1891 and 1991 appear to the lower left and lower right of the portrait respectively. A two-line inscription MARIANO OSPINA PEREZ / CENTENARIO DE SU NACIMIENTO is engraved in italic lettering across the lower field, separated from the portrait by dot stops. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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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.