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10 Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Central de Bolivia |
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| Year | 1945-1952 |
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| Reference(s) | P#139 |
| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed portrait of Marshal Antonio José de Sucre within an oval vignette at right, the Bolivian national arms at left, and a large guilloche underprint centred behind the denomination numeral 10. The note is issued under the law of 20 December 1945, with series letter and serial number in red. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO CENTRAL DE BOLIVIA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR A LA VISTA DIEZ BOLIVIANOS EMISION 1951 SÉRIE A La Paz, Ley de 20 de Diciembre de 1945 UN BOLIVAR THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY, LIMITED |
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The base note was printed by De La Rue in London from 1945, but the overprinted emission dates — 1951, 1952 — reflect Bolivia's struggle to manage currency supply against chronic fiscal pressure in the years before the 1952 Revolution. Overprinting existing stock rather than commissioning new printings was a cost-control measure, and the sequence of signature combinations across overlapping series and emission dates gives collectors a useful tool for sequencing the release order more precisely than the overprint dates alone suggest.
The Series C notes, lacking any "EMISIÓN" overprint entirely, represent the tail end of this issue and carry Hinojosa's signature in place of Damaso Carrasco — a change that occurred as the revolutionary MNR government consolidated control of the central bank after April 1952.