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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Colombia |
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| Year | 1912-1933 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Casa de Moneda de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia (1620-1987) Casa de Moneda de Colombia, Medellin, Colombia Heaton and Sons / The Mint Birmingham (Heaton and Sons / The Mint Birmingham Limited), United Kingdom (1850-2003) B - Casa de Moneda de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia (1620-1987) B - Heaton and Sons / The Mint Birmingham (Heaton and Sons / The Mint Birmingham Limited), United Kingdom (1850-2003) M - Casa de Moneda de Colombia, Medellin, Colombia |
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Colombia's silver coinage of this period was repeatedly disrupted by the aftermath of the Thousand Days' War (1899–1902), which left the national treasury effectively bankrupt and forced the government into prolonged monetary reorganization. The Banco Nacional had already collapsed under the weight of unbacked paper emissions, and restoring public confidence in metallic currency was a slow, politically contentious process well into the 1910s.
The long date range on this type reflects interrupted production rather than continuous minting — years of issue were sporadic, tied directly to congressional appropriations and fluctuating silver availability on international markets.