50 Centavos Collahuasi la Grande
© Rojomano
Features
| Location |
Chile
 |
|---|---|
| Type | Trade tokens › Work encampment, mine and wage tokens |
| Year | 1914 |
| Value | 50 Centavos (0.50) |
| Currency | Peso (1835-1959) |
| Composition | Bakelite |
| Weight | 2.76 g |
| Diameter | 35 mm |
| Thickness | 2.8 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 99212 |
| References | RulauLatin# Ant 76 Russell Alphonse Rulau; 2000. Latin American Tokens: an Illustrated, Priced Catalog of the Unofficial Coinage of Latin America, Used in Plantation, Mine, Mill, and Dock : from 1700 to the 20th Century (2nd Edition). Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, United States. |
Obverse
No image. Dots circle. company name around, office name at center
Script: Latin
Lettering:
SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DES MINES DE CUIVRE ⸰ ⵓ ⸰
COLLAHUASI
LA GRANDE
Translation:
French society of the copper mines
Collahuasi the Great
Reverse
Face value at center. Dots circle. Description around
Script: Latin
Lettering:
VALE POR CINCUENTA CENTAVOS DE MERCADERIAS • PULPERIA •
50
CENTAVOS
Translation:
Worth for 50 cents of merchandise Pulperia (grocery store market)
50 Cents
Edge
Plain
Comments
Lack of Lecompte because this series is private, it concerns a French company in Chile and not within the series of colonial coins. The French Society of Copper Mines bought Compania Minera Collahuasila (created in 1899) around 1912 to operate one of the largest copper mine in Chile, known since pre-Columbian times, with five major mines lying around the Hills of Collahuasi / Iquique. The French company is sold to La Poderosa Mining Company SA in 1923. These tokens were issued in the pulperías (local grocery stores).
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| ND (1914) | |||||||||||||||
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