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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Ecuador |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Weight | 2.9 g |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Ecuador is centrally depicted, featuring a condor displayed atop an oval shield containing a scene with Mount Chimborazo and a river, flanked by laurel and palm branches below. The circular legend REPUBLICA DEL ECUADOR arcs along the upper periphery, with the date 1988 inscribed in the lower field. The design is framed by a beaded border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Ecuador's nickel-clad steel coinage of the 1980s was introduced as the sucre inflated sharply following the oil price collapse of 1986 and successive debt crises that forced repeated currency adjustments. Cheaper base metal compositions replaced earlier nickel issues as production costs outpaced face value — a familiar spiral in Latin American monetary policy of the decade.