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1 Boliviano
| Issuer | Bolivia |
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| Year | 1951 |
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| Thickness | 1.66 mm |
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| Obverse description | The Bolivian national coat of arms displayed within a beaded oval cartouche, depicting a radiant sun rising above the two peaks of Cerro Rico and Cerro Menor at Potosí, with a chapel, a palm tree, a wheat sheaf, and an alpaca arranged in the landscape below. A row of nine stars is positioned beneath the oval shield, representing the nine departments of Bolivia. The encircling legend REPUBLICA DE BOLIVIA runs along the periphery of the coin within a beaded border. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE BOLIVIA |
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Bolivia's 1951 coinage came at a moment of acute political instability — the country was barely a year removed from a disputed presidential election that ended in military intervention, and the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement was consolidating the popular pressure that would produce the 1952 revolution. Bronze coinage of this period circulated hard through a tin-dependent economy in open crisis, and many survivors show it.