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4 Soles
| Issuer | Bolivia |
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| Year | 1855-1858 |
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| Currency | Sol (1827-1863) |
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| Reverse description | Laureate head of Simon Bolivar facing left, with flowing hair and a laurel wreath, rendered in bold relief against a flat field. A long ribbon or lock of hair trails down the neck toward the truncation. The surrounding legend LIBRE POR LA CONSTITUCION. runs along the upper and right periphery, terminating with a period, and the coin is bordered by a fine milled edge with continuous dentilation. |
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| Reverse lettering | LIBRE POR LA CONSTITUCION. |
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Bolivia's 4 Soles denomination existed in an awkward monetary interval — a transitional issue bridging the old colonial macuquin tradition and the republic's gradual shift toward decimal coinage, which arrived definitively in 1864. The .667 fineness placed these coins below the old Spanish colonial standard, a deliberate reduction that allowed the Bolivian treasury to stretch silver reserves during a period of chronic fiscal instability driven by caudillo political turnover and interrupted mining revenues from Potosí.
KM#130 was struck at the Potosí mint, still the dominant source of Bolivian silver output a full three centuries after its founding under Spanish colonial administration.