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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Colombia |
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| Year | 1958-1966 |
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| Value | 50 Centavos |
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| Reverse description | The Colombian national coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring a condor with outstretched wings perched atop a shield that displays a Phrygian cap, a pomegranate, and two cornucopias, flanked by laurel and palm branches. The circular legend REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA arcs along the upper periphery, while the motto LIBERTAD Y ORDEN appears on a ribbon across the shield. The denomination CINCUENTA CENTAVOS is inscribed along the lower border, all within a beaded rim. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Colombia's fiscal instability through the late 1950s and early 1960s — driven in part by coffee price volatility and the political violence of La Violencia — pressured the government into repeatedly reassessing its subsidiary coinage. This copper-nickel issue replaced an earlier silver-bearing type as silver recovery from circulation became economically untenable. The Bogotá mint struck these across nearly a decade with minimal design revision, an unusual stretch of continuity for a country that changed its coinage with considerable frequency during this period.