50 Reales

The X# prefix places this squarely outside Ecuador's regular monetary issues — it is a bullion or commemorative piece catalogued in Krause's Unusual World Coins, meaning it circulated nowhere and was produced for collectors or export sale rather than domestic commerce. Ecuador in 1987 was operating under severe external debt pressure following the Latin American debt crisis, and hard-currency bullion sales were one mechanism governments used to generate foreign exchange without IMF entanglement.

At 155.515 grams of .999 silver, this is a five-troy-ounce piece — a standard bullion format of the period.