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200 Bolivianos Tamayo, Series D-E
| Issuer | Banco Central de Bolivia |
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| Year | 1995-2001 |
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| Value | 200 Bolivianos |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Franz Tamayo at right, rendered in intaglio against a multicolour guilloche underprint in pale rose and yellow tones; the Bolivian coat of arms appears at lower centre flanked by ornamental scrollwork. The denomination '200' is printed in large numerals at upper left and lower right, with the bank title 'BANCO CENTRAL DE BOLIVIA' across the top and the value legend 'DOSCIENTOS BOLIVIANOS' in bold letterpress at centre. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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The "Tamayo" series designation honors Franz Tamayo, the Bolivian poet, philosopher, and politician whose prominence in national intellectual life made him a recurring choice for commemorative and circulating paper currency. Bolivia's 1990s banknote program was produced by the Canadian Bank Note Company, which handled the full Bolivianos series introduced after the catastrophic hyperinflation of the mid-1980s — when the country briefly ran the highest inflation rate in the world, briefly exceeding 20,000 percent annually in 1985.
The print figures in the metadata — 20,000 in 1885 and 1886 — are almost certainly a data transcription error, likely misread dates rather than quantities.