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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Republic of Colombia |
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| Year | 1916-1934 |
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| Value | 50 Centavos (0.50 COP) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | CINCUENTA CENTAVOS LIBERTAD Y ORDEN G. 12.500. LEY 0.900 (Translation: Fifty Centavos Liberty and Order 12.5 Grams, .900 Fineness) |
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Colombia's silver coinage of this period was produced under chronic financial strain — the country had not fully recovered from the Thousand Days' War (1899–1902), a civil conflict that devastated the economy and left the monetary system badly disorganized. The Medellín mint, which struck most of this type, was frequently interrupted by government funding gaps throughout the 1920s, creating irregular annual outputs that make certain dates within this long series considerably scarcer than the span suggests.
The series ran through 1934, when Colombia abandoned the silver standard in response to the global Depression-era monetary contractions sweeping Latin America.