5 Centavos Silver Pattern

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.