1 Boliviano Pattern

Bolivia's decimal coinage reform had been grinding forward since the 1860s, but the 1 Boliviano unit took years to settle into an accepted design. This 1884 pattern was struck as part of the evaluation process — physical proposals submitted for official approval rather than released into commerce. Pattern strikes of this period were typically produced in very small numbers, often fewer than a dozen examples, making survivors genuinely scarce regardless of condition.

The Potosí mint, operating since the colonial silver boom of the 1540s, handled most Bolivian pattern work in this decade.