Colombia 20 centavos 1953 B

The coin's story

This 20 centavos coin in 300 thousandths billon belongs to the short series struck in 1952 and 1953 by the Republic of Colombia, after the one with the effigy of Santander. The obverse bears the country's arms: an Andean condor, wings spread, holding an olive wreath above the motto LIBERTAD Y ORDEN (Liberty and order), on a three-part shield. It shows a pomegranate between two cornucopias, the Phrygian cap of liberty and two ships. The reverse shows a bust dividing the value, written in words. The coin was struck at the Bogotá Mint, the 1953 date has 17,819,000 pieces, against only about 4,000 in 1952.