Obverse

Depicts Head of Liberty, wearing a Phrygian cap, facing left, with grain sprigs forming a wreath. Country name above, mint mark 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 CHILE
So

Reverse

Value in the centre and the motto "Economy is wealth" above, date below surrounded by stars.

ECONOMIA ES RIQUEZA
MEDIO
CENTAVO
★ 1885 ★

Edge

1/2 Centavo

KM# 148a
Characteristics
Material Copper
Weight 3 g
Diameter 19 mm
Thickness -
Shape round
Alignment Coin
Mint
Casa de Moneda de Chile (So)

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