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5000 Sucres Native Costumes
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | The central field displays the national coat of arms of Ecuador, featuring a condor perched atop an oval shield depicting Mount Chimborazo and a steamship on the river, flanked by four national flags and laurel and palm branches below. The curved legend REPUBLICA DEL ECUADOR arcs along the upper portion of the inner circle, with the date 1997 inscribed at the base of the central device. Surrounding the inner circle, the broad outer border is decorated with an array of raised representations of coins and national seals from various Latin American republics, rendered in fine relief against the mirror-polished field. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DEL ECUADOR 1997 |
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Ecuador's sucre was in freefall through the late 1990s — by 1999 the country would experience a full banking collapse, and by 2000 the sucre was abolished entirely in favor of the dollar. This 5,000-sucre silver piece was struck into that deteriorating monetary environment, part of a collector-oriented series celebrating indigenous regional dress at a moment when the currency itself had months left to exist.