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1/2 Sucre
| Issuer | Ecuador |
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| Year | 1884 |
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| Value | 1/2 Sucre (1/2 ECS) |
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| Reverse description | A left-facing bust portrait of Antonio José de Sucre, the Venezuelan-born independence hero and liberator of Ecuador, rendered in high relief with fine detail to the hair and uniform. The legend 'REPUBLICA DEL ECUADOR' arcs around the upper periphery of the coin, while the year of issue '1884' appears in the lower field. The portrait is set within a plain field and surrounded by a beaded border consistent with the obverse. |
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| Mint | HEATON BIRMINGHAM Heaton and Sons / The Mint Birmingham (Heaton and Sons / The Mint Birmingham Limited), United Kingdom (1850-2003) |
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| Additional information |
Ecuador's first national coinage after independence relied heavily on foreign mints, and the 1884 half sucre was struck at the Lima mint in Peru — a practical arrangement given Ecuador's lack of domestic minting infrastructure at the time. The sucre as a monetary unit had only been established in 1884, replacing the peso, and this coin belongs to the very first emission of the new currency system.
KM#52 is known with both Lima and Heaton (Birmingham) mint origins across its early years, making mint attribution a genuine cataloging concern for this type.