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5 Centavos Silver Pattern
| Issuer | Bolivia |
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| Year | 1868 |
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| Value | 5 Centavos (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | At center, the Bolivian national coat of arms depicted as an oval cartouche surmounted by a condor with outstretched wings; the shield is flanked by crossed flags and military trophies including cannons, rifles, and axes, with rays emanating behind. Nine five-pointed stars are arranged in a curved row beneath the arms. The circular legend REPUBLICA BOLIVIANA runs along the upper periphery in Latin script, with a beaded border encircling the entire design. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bolivia's monetary system was in active renegotiation during the late 1860s, with legislators debating the practicality of a decimalized small-denomination silver coinage to replace the fractional real system. This 1868 pattern was part of that exploratory process — produced to test specifications rather than for release, and almost certainly never submitted to a full legislative approval cycle.
KM#Pn14 is known in extremely limited numbers, as patterns of this period rarely survived outside official or diplomatic hands.