5000 Sucres Native Costumes

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.