50 Centavos Collahuasi la grande ND

Reverse

Face valueat center . Dots circle.Description around

Script: Latin

Lettering:
50
CENTAVOS
VALE POR CINCUENTA CENTAVOS
DE MERCADERIA • PULPERIA •

Translation:
50
Cents
It's worth 50 cents of merchandise Grocery store (Pulperia Market)

Edge

Plain

Comment

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).