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5 Centavos
| Issuer | Republic of Bolivia |
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| Year | 1935 |
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| Thickness | 1.3 mm |
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| Obverse description | The Bolivian national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting the Cerro Rico mountain of Potosí with a radiant sun rising behind its peak, a llama standing at the mountain's base to the left, a palm tree to the right, and a breadloaf-shaped hill in the middle ground. A caduceus-like building or fortification is visible atop the central peak. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner border, with nine six-pointed stars arranged along the lower arc of the coin. The circular legend REPUBLICA DE BOLIVIA runs along the upper periphery in raised Latin lettering. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE BOLIVIA |
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Bolivia's shift to copper-nickel for small denomination coinage in the early 1930s came directly out of the Chaco War with Paraguay, which drained the treasury and made silver an unaffordable option for fractional currency. The 1935 issue falls in the final year of that conflict, which formally ended with a ceasefire in June of that year.