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10 000 Pesos Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Central de Bolivia |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Value | 10 000 Pesos bolivianos (10 000 BOP) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in shades of brown, blue, and purple-green on a multicolor guilloche underprint, the reverse centers on an intaglio vignette of the Palacio Legislativo in La Paz, rendered in fine architectural detail with surrounding trees and ornamental lampposts. The denomination numerals appear in a guilloche cartouche at lower left, with the denomination in full along the lower band. A geometric security element is visible at lower right. |
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| Signature(s) | Jaime Rossel & Prado Guachalla |
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Bolivia's hyperinflationary spiral of the early 1980s was among the most severe in Latin American history, peaking in 1985 at an annualized rate exceeding 20,000 percent. The 10,000 Pesos Bolivianos denomination, unthinkable a decade earlier, had become routine by 1984 — the government was printing notes simply to keep pace with prices that changed multiple times daily. Bundesdruckerei in Berlin had supplied Bolivian currency work for years, but the sheer volume of notes required in this period tested even a well-equipped state printer.
Bolivia replaced the entire Pesos Bolivianos series in 1987 with the Boliviano at a conversion rate of one million to one.