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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Colombia |
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| Year | 1958-1966 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing bust of Simón Bolívar, modelled after the celebrated portrait by the Italian sculptor Pietro Tenerani, occupying the central field. The hair is rendered in flowing, naturalistic relief with fine detail. The curved legend LIBERTADOR SIMON BOLIVAR arcs around the upper periphery within a beaded border, flanked by two small stars at the lower sides. The four-digit date appears in the exergue below the truncation. |
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| Obverse lettering | LIBERTADOR SIMON BOLIVAR 1963 (Translation: Liberator Simon Bolivar) |
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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.