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REPUBLIC
5
Pesos - 1928
KM-204 - 7,99 g
Mintage
- 0,314M
The obverse features a small head bust of the Liberator Simon Bolivár (b1783-d1830) surrounded by the legend REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA (Republic of Colombia) with the date 1928 at the bottom. MEDELLIN, the minting city, is below the bust. The reverse has the Colombian arms with the denomination CINCO PESOS above the weight G(rams) 7,988 at the left, LEY (law) at the bottom, and (fineness) 0,916 2/3 to the right. Bolivar took command of a Colombian force and captured Bogota in 1814. The Spanish drove him off. Bolivar marched into New Granada in 1819 defeating the Spaniards in Boyar in 1819, liberating the territory of Colombia. He then returned to Angostura and led the congress that organized the original republic of Gran Colombia (now Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela). Bolivar became its first president on December 17, 1819. Bolivar crushed the Spanish army at Carabobo in Venezuela on June 24, 1821. Next, he marched into Educador and added that territory to the new Colombian republic. After a meeting in 1822 with another great liberator, Bolivar became dictator of Peru. His army won a victory over the Spaniards at Ayacucho in 1824, which terminated Spanish power in South America.
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