Portrait of Antonio José de Sucre facing left.

1927 is the year of creation of the Central Bank of Ecuador. 1997 is the year of the coin issue.

Antonio José de Sucre y Alcalá (1795–1830), known as the "Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho" (English: "Grand Marshal of Ayacucho"), was a Venezuelan independence leader and the second President of Bolivia. Sucre was one of Simón Bolívar's closest friends, generals and statesmen. The city of Sucre, Bolivia's capital, is named for him, as is a state of Venezuela and a department of Colombia. The currency of Ecuador between 1884 and 2000 was named Sucre after Antonio José de Sucre.

Denomination in digits, denomination in words (twice).