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  • 5 Centavos 1942-1966, KM# 206, Colombia
  • 5 Centavos 1942-1966, KM# 206, 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
1967

Reverse

Coffee bean sprigs flank denomination, Cornucopia above.

V
CENTAVOS

Edge

5 Centavos

With date
KM# 206 Schön# 206
Characteristics
Material Bronze
Weight 4.02 g
Diameter 21 mm
Thickness 1.45 mm
Shape round
Alignment Coin
Mint
Casa de Moneda de Colombia

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