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1 Escudo Silver Pattern
| Issuer | Bolivia |
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| Year | 1887 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the Bolivian coat of arms — an oval shield depicting a mountain landscape with a rising sun and a llama, flanked by crossed Bolivian flags and backed by crossed cannons, surmounted by a condor with spread wings. Nine six-pointed stars are arranged in an arc below the arms. The circumferential legend reads REPUBLICA BOLIVIANA in the upper arc, while the denomination UN ESCUDO and the assayer mark 2 B. appear in the lower arc, all in Latin script. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Bolivia's 1887 coinage experiments came during a period of acute monetary instability following the War of the Pacific, which had stripped the country of its entire Pacific coastline by 1884 and devastated the nitrate and silver export economy. This pattern likely reflects official attempts to rationalize the coinage system in the aftermath — the escudo denomination itself was already archaic by this point, making its appearance in an 1887 pattern more a bureaucratic exercise than a serious proposal for circulation.