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  • 1 Centavo 1967-1978, KM# 205a, Colombia
  • 1 Centavo 1967-1978, KM# 205a, Colombia
Obverse

Depicts the Phrygian cap within bay leaf wreath, surrounded by the country name, date below.

The Phrygian cap is a soft conical cap with the top pulled forward, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe and Anatolia, including Phrygia, Dacia, and the Balkans. In early modern Europe it came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty through a confusion with the pileus, the felt cap of manumitted (emancipated) slaves of ancient Rome. Accordingly, the Phrygian cap sometimes is called a liberty cap; in artistic representations it signifies freedom and the pursuit of liberty.

REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA
LIBERTAD
1967

Reverse

Coffee bean sprigs flank denomination, Cornucopia above.

I
CENTAVO

Edge

1 Centavo

KM# 205a Schön# 25a
Characteristics
Material Copper Plated Steel
Weight 2 g
Diameter 17 mm
Thickness 1.4 mm
Shape round
Alignment Coin

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