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250 Pesos Bolivianos Independence
| Issuer | Bolivia |
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| Year | 1975 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Conjoined left-facing busts of President Hugo Banzer Suárez and Liberator Simón Bolívar are portrayed in profile, with Banzer depicted in front and Bolívar behind. The denomination $b250 appears in the upper field above the portraits. Inscriptions identifying the subjects as PRESIDENTE BANZER and LIBERTADOR BOLIVAR are distributed in the field, along with the silver fineness LEY 0,933 and the motto ORDEN • PAZ • TRABAJO. The legend DOSCIENTOS • CINCUENTA • PESOS • BOLIVIANOS arcs around the upper portion of the coin. |
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Bolivia's 1975 silver commemoratives were issued under the military government of Hugo Banzer, who had seized power in a 1971 coup and used nationalistic anniversaries as vehicles for regime legitimacy. The 150th anniversary of Bolivian independence from Spain provided the occasion — though the irony of a military dictatorship commemorating liberation was apparently lost on no one in La Paz.