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1 Centimo Pattern
| Issuer | Peru |
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| Year | 1855 |
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| Currency | Sol (1863-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Central device consisting of a radiant five-pointed star with fine linear rays emanating from its center, within which is set a facing sun with a fully rendered human face featuring detailed eyes, nose, and mouth. The sun face occupies the heart of the star in high relief against a smooth field. The circular legend REPUBLICA PERUANA is arranged around the periphery, reading from lower left to upper right, flanked by a finely toothed milled border. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA PERUANA (Translation: Peruvian Republic) |
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Peru's decimal coinage reform of the 1850s was a prolonged negotiation between competing monetary philosophies — the old real-based system and the emerging centesimal models spreading across Latin America. This copper centimo pattern was part of that transitional probing, struck to test designs and module before any official decimal law had been fully enacted. The reform ultimately produced the decimal sol system, but not before several pattern series were struck and discarded.
KM#Pn7 is among the less-documented Peruvian patterns of this decade, and surviving examples are infrequently offered.