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500 Sucres 70th Anniversary - Central Bank
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#102, Schön#95 |
| Obverse description | Bimetallic coin featuring the large numeral '500' prominently displayed in the aluminium bronze centre, with the legend 'QUINIENTOS SUCRES' arcing across the upper portion of the copper-nickel outer ring and repeated in inverted orientation along the lower portion, creating a rotational symmetry effect. Small decorative floral or leaf motifs appear at the left and right sides of the ring, separating the two legend inscriptions. The design is bold and typographic, with no figurative imagery on this face. |
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| Obverse lettering | QUINIENTOS SUCRES 500 QUINIENTOS SUCRES (Translation: Five hundred sucres 500 Five hundred sucres) |
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Ecuador's Central Bank was founded in 1927 under pressure from the Kemmerer Mission, an American financial advisory team led by Princeton economist Edwin Kemmerer that restructured monetary systems across five Latin American nations in the 1920s. The 1997 commemorative marks seventy years from that founding — though the timing carries a certain irony, as the sucre had less than three years left before Ecuador's catastrophic banking crisis of 1999 forced dollarization and permanent retirement of the currency in 2000.