50 Centavos

Aversbeschreibung	A shield-shaped coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a five-pointed star set against a vertically lined background within a bordered escutcheon. The denomination numeral '50' appears to the left of the shield and the abbreviation 'C' to the right, flanking the device. The legend 'COPIAPO' arcs along the upper periphery and 'CHILE' along the lower, all rendered in bold block Latin lettering within a raised rim.
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Zusätzliche Informationen	Copiapó's municipal coinage of 1865 was a direct consequence of the silver bonanza at Chañarcillo, discovered in 1832, which transformed the city into one of the wealthiest in South America and generated a local demand for specie that the Santiago mint struggled to meet. These pieces were struck under emergency municipal authority, an arrangement almost without parallel in Chilean monetary history. The .970 fineness is notably high — above the standard Chilean national coinage of the period.