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1 Sol
| Issuer | Bolivia |
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| Year | 1827-1829 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central design features a stylized breadfruit or ceibo tree rising from a mountainous landscape flanked by two llamas facing outward, rendered in relief against a plain field. Nine six-pointed stars are arranged in an arc above the central device, forming a semicircular border. The circumferential legend reads REPUBLICA BOLIVIANA, with the denomination, mint mark, date, and assayer initials inscribed along the lower periphery. The coin exhibits a reeded border and the design is executed in the neoclassical republican style characteristic of early Bolivian coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA BOLIVIANA · PTS · 1S · 1827 · J · M · |
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Bolivia's early republican coinage was struck at Potosí, the same mountain mint that had produced Spanish colonial pieces for nearly three centuries. The transition from colonial to republican dies was administratively chaotic — the new government inherited Spanish machinery, Spanish assayers, and in some cases Spanish workers, making the first republican issues hybrids of two monetary regimes rather than clean breaks from one.
KM#94 spans only three years before it was superseded by revised republican types. Potosí's assayer initials appear on pieces across this run, and attributing specific die marriages to individual years remains an active area of study.