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50 Centavos Province of Santander
| Issuer | Santander, State of |
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| Year | 1902 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the numeral '50' enclosed within a raised circular ring, evoking a large stylised 'C' for centavos. The legend SANTANDER arcs around the upper periphery, with the date 1902 positioned along the lower periphery. The design is bold and utilitarian in character, consistent with wartime emergency coinage produced under primitive striking conditions. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Province of Santander issued emergency brass coinage during the Thousand Days' War (1899–1902), one of the most destructive civil conflicts in Colombian history, which killed an estimated 100,000 people and left the national monetary system in near-total collapse. Regional authorities across Colombia resorted to locally produced fractional pieces when central government supply lines failed entirely. Santander's issues are among the more documented of these provincial emissions, catalogued by Hernández with enough surviving specimens to establish the type — but circulating quantities were almost certainly small.