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5 Centavos
| Issuer | Chile |
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| Year | 1915-1919 |
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| Engraver(s) | Louis-Oscar Roty |
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| Reverse description | The denomination CINCO CENTAVOS is inscribed in two lines at center, with the date below, all enclosed within a laurel and oak wreath tied at the base with a ribbon bow. The Santiago mint mark 'So' appears above the wreath at the top of the field, just inside the beaded border. The wreath is rendered with fine botanical detail, with alternating laurel and oak branches meeting symmetrically. |
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| Reverse lettering | So CINCO CENTAVOS 1916 |
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Chile's small silver-copper coinage of this period was struck at a moment when the country's monetary system was under serious strain. The War of the Pacific had ended in 1884, but the fiscal aftermath — including prolonged suspension of silver convertibility and the eventual abandonment of the gold standard in 1898 — left Chilean coinage in a state of chronic instability well into the early twentieth century. Billon at .450 fine was a practical concession, keeping fractional coins in circulation without exhausting silver reserves.
The Santiago Mint, Casa de Moneda, handled production throughout this run.