10 Bolivianos

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.