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20 Centavos
| Issuer | Chile |
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| Year | 1867-1879 |
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| Value | 20 Centavos (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | POR LA RAZON O LA FUERZA * 1878 * |
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| Mintage | 1867 So - - 286,000 1868 So - - 197,000 1869 So - overdate variety exists - 163,000 1870 So - overdate variety exists - 992,000 1871 So - overdate variety exists - 1,144,000 1872 So - overdate variety exists - 1,979,000 1873 So - - 1873 So - Error: O over horizontal O in O LA; overdate variety exists - 1874 So - Narrow date - 1874 So - Wide date - 1,256,000 1875 So - - 120,000 1876 So - Large stars - 749,000 1876 So - Small stars - 1877 So - - 549,000 1878 So - overdate variety exists - 2,639,000 1879 So - - 9,645 |
| Additional information |
Chile's silver coinage of this period was produced under contract at foreign mints — primarily Santiago, but with dies and technical supervision often sourced abroad — as the young republic struggled to maintain consistent domestic minting capacity. The 1870s brought particular pressure: nitrate revenues were fueling economic expansion, but the War of the Pacific loomed just over the horizon, and monetary policy was already straining under convertibility disputes that would eventually force Chile off silver entirely by the 1890s.
KM#138.1 distinguishes this variety from later issues with subtle die differences in the denomination rendering.