Colombia 2017 100 pesos

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This hundred pesos is of a type issued for Colombia starting in 2012. A local plant endemic to the Colombian paramo, the frailejon, is featured on the reverse. For 2017, the mintage contract was divided between the government facility in Ibaque and the Kremnica mint in Czechoslovakia. As of October 2021, US$1 = 3,792 Colombian pesos, giving this coin a value of about 2.6 cents.

Recorded mintage: 230,600,000 (Ibague + Kremnica).

Specification: 3.24 g, brass plated steel, 20.3 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM 296.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 2001-Date, 13th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2018.

Link to:

• 2012 100 pesos, frailejon
• 2017 200 pesos, scarlet macaw
• 2017 500 pesos, glass frog
• 2017 1000 pesos, sea turtle
• 2019 50 pesos, spectacled bear
• Coins and currency dated 2017