10 Centavos

Features

Issuer	Colombia
Period	Republic (1886-date)
Type	Standard circulation coin
Years	1952-1967
Value	10 Centavos (0.1 COP)
Currency	Peso decimalized (1847-date)
Composition	Copper-nickel
Weight	2.5 g
Diameter	18.5 mm
Thickness	1.31 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 5094
References	KM# 212, Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14^th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States. And 5 more volumes. Restrepo# 380, Jorge Emilio Restrepo; 2012. Coins of Colombia : Spanish colonial and republican 1619 to 2012 (4^th edition). Self-published, Medellín, Colombia. Schön# 31 Gerhard Schön; 2022. Weltmünzkatalog / 20. Jahrhundert: 1901-2000 (47. Auflage). Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Germany. And 2 more volumes.

Obverse

Arms of Colombia with the country name above around the rim and the date below

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA
1956

Translation: Republic of Colombia

Engraver: Luis Alberto Acuña Tapias

Reverse

Value, the portrait of Indio Chief Calarcá facing right

Script: Latin

Lettering:
DIEZ CENTAVOS
CALARCÁ

Translation: Ten Centavos

Engraver: Luis Alberto Acuña Tapias

Edge

Reeded

Mint

B	Casa de Moneda de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia (1620-1987)

Comments

Chief Calarcá was a native American leader and war chief. This indigenous chief was the leader of the Pijaos Tribe, who lived in the actual Calarcá (municipality in the eastern part of the department of Quindío, Colombia). According to the legends, Chief Calarcá died in a fight with Baltazar Maldonado, an indigenous converted into the Catholicism, to keep the power of the territory, in a fight placed on Peñas Blancas, a characteristic mountain of the actual city of Calarcá.

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Date	Mintage	G	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC	Frequency
Undetermined
1952 B	6 035 000			$ 0.64	$ 0.93				8%	KM#212.1 - 18 mm; Restrepo#380.1
1953 B	6 985 000			$ 0.22	$ 0.48				9%	KM#212.1 - 18 mm; Restrepo#380.3
1954 B	13 006 000		$ 0.23	$ 0.37	$ 0.42	$ 0.54			12%	KM#212.2 - 18.5 mm; Restrepo#380.4
1955 B	9 968 000				$ 0.68	$ 1.70			7%	KM#212.2 - 18.5 mm; Restrepo#380.5
1956	36 010 000	$ 0.10	$ 0.27	$ 0.27	$ 0.50	$ 0.76	$ 1.00	$ 1.20	38%	KM#212.2 - 18.5 mm, without mintmark; Restrepo#380.6
1956 B									1.1%	KM#212.2 - 18.5 mm, with mintmark
1958	41 695 000								1.1%	KM#212.2 - 18.5 mm
1959	36 653 000	$ 0.05	$ 0.27	$ 0.27	$ 0.54	$ 0.76	$ 0.76	$ 0.88	42%	KM#212.2 - 18.5 mm; Restrepo#380.7
1960	32 290 000								4%	KM#212.2 - 18.5 mm; Restrepo#380.8
1961	17 780 000								3%	KM#212.2 - 18.5 mm; Restrepo#380.9
1962	8 930 000								4%	KM#212.2 - 18.5 mm; Restrepo#380.10
1963	37 540 000		$ 0.11	$ 0.19	$ 0.45	$ 0.65	$ 0.77	$ 0.97	13%	KM#212.2 - 18.5 mm; Restrepo#380.11
1964	61 672 000	$ 0.11	$ 0.42	$ 0.42	$ 0.47	$ 0.48	$ 0.59	$ 1.50	29%	KM#212.2 - 18.5 mm; Restrepo#380.12
1965	12 804 000								3%	KM#212.2 - 18.5 mm; Restrepo#380.13
1966	23 544 000			$ 0.27	$ 0.50	$ 1.10	$ 1.10	$ 1.20	19%	KM#212.2 - 18.5 mm large date; Restrepo#380.14
1967									1.1%	KM#212.2 - 18.5 mm

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