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20 Bolivianos Ríos, Katari, Muiba
| Issuer | Banco Central de Bolivia |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The right portion of the face carries intaglio-printed portrait vignettes of three Bolivian historical figures: Genoveva Ríos in the foreground centre, Tomás Katari at centre-right, and Pedro Ignacio Muiba at upper right, each identified by an engraved name caption. The left field displays a multicolour guilloche underprint incorporating a watermark window and a vertical windowed security strip bearing repeated '20' microtext running along the centre-left axis. The denomination numeral '20' appears in large orange and blue figures at lower right, surmounted by the legend 'VEINTE BOLIVIANOS' in a terracotta panel, with the issuer title 'BANCO CENTRAL DE BOLIVIA' and 'ESTADO PLURINACIONAL DE BOLIVIA' in bold lettering across the top. |
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| Reverse description | The back is dominated by a richly coloured landscape vignette of Laguna Bay rendered in deep blue and green tones, with a towering Toborochi tree (Árbol Toborochi) in full orange bloom rising at centre-right above dense tropical shoreline vegetation. A black caiman (Caimán Negro) rests on the bank in the lower centre, with a second caiman vignette placed in the upper left above the waterline. The denomination numeral '20' in large tricolour figures occupies the lower left beneath the legend 'VEINTE BOLIVIANOS', with the issuer title repeated in bold lettering across the top. |
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Bolivia's 2018 series was a deliberate reorientation — the Banco Central moved away from the creole liberators who had dominated Bolivian paper money for generations and replaced them with indigenous and mestizo figures. The three names on this note reflect that policy shift: Juana Azurduy de Padilla's war companions and regional leaders largely overlooked by the earlier nationalist iconography.
Oberthur Fiduciaire, working from their Chantepie facility, handles a significant share of Latin American central bank contracts. Nothing about the printing here is unusual for the series.