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1 Sol
| Issuer | Republic of Bolivia |
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| Year | 1859-1863 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | Left-facing laureate bust of Simón Bolívar, wearing a laurel wreath tied with a ribbon at the back, truncated at the shoulder, occupying the centre of the field. The name 'BOLIVAR' appears below the truncation, accompanied by the denomination indicator '50 G.' The circular legend 'LIBRE POR LA CONSTITUCION' runs along the periphery, with reeded border visible at the rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | LIBRE POR LA CONSTITUCION BOLIVAR · 50 G · |
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Bolivia's sol-denominated silver series of this period was struck at the Potosí mint — the same facility that had been pouring out colonial silver for three centuries — now operating under republican authority but still dependent on the same mountain that had consumed an estimated eight million indigenous and enslaved African lives in its colonial mines. The transition from the Spanish colonial cob and milled coinage to a decimal republican system was politically contentious, delayed repeatedly through the 1850s by factional instability and competing monetary proposals.
KM#134 spans the administrations of at least three different presidents.