1/10 Boliviano Silver Piedfort

Piedforts — coins struck at double or greater thickness on standard-diameter planchets — were produced in Bolivia during the 1860s almost certainly as presentation or pattern pieces, not for circulation. The 1865 date places this squarely in a turbulent period of Bolivian monetary reform, when the republic was transitioning away from the colonial-era macuquina coinage system and attempting to standardize on decimal denominations. Whether this specific piece was struck at Potosí or as a proof-of-concept for Lima-assisted production remains unclear from existing records.

KM#PC3 cataloguing places it firmly in pattern/piedfort territory. Surviving examples are exceptionally rare.