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5000 Sucres Horse rider

Issuer Banco Central del Ecuador
Year 1999
Type Non-circulating coin
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Obverse script Latin
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Edge Reeded
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Ecuador struck this issue in 1999, the same year the country's economy collapsed entirely. Dollarization — the abandonment of the sucre in favor of the U.S. dollar — was announced in January 2000 after the sucre lost roughly 75% of its value in a single year. A commemorative silver coin denominated in sucres, minted at that precise moment, was obsolete almost before it left the dies.

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