50 Centavos

The 1902 date places this coin squarely within the Thousand Days War, the devastating civil conflict between Liberal and Conservative factions that killed roughly 100,000 Colombians and left the national treasury in ruins. Coin production during this period was severely disrupted, with some issues struck under conditions of institutional near-collapse. Colombia lost Panama to secession just one year later, partly because the government was too financially and militarily exhausted from the war to contest it.