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50 000 Pesos Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Central de Bolivia |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE BOLIVIA CHEQUE DE GERENCIA DECRETO SUPREMO NO. 20272 DE 5 DE JUNIO DE 1984 LA PAZ, 20 DE JUNIO DE 1984 PAGUESE AL PORTADOR $B. 50.000,00 CINCUENTA MIL PESOS BOLIVIANOS $B. 50.000,00 (Translation: Central Bank of Bolivia Management Check Supreme Decree # 20272 of June 5th., 1984 La Paz, June 20TH., 1984 Be paid to the bearer $b. 50,000.00 Fifty Thousand Pesos Bolivianos $b. 50,000.00) |
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| Variants | P#185a - issued note; with 90 days clause at lower right on back |
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Bolivia's inflation in the early 1980s was among the worst recorded in the Western Hemisphere — by 1985, the annual rate had exceeded 11,000 percent. This 50,000 Pesos Bolivianos note was part of the emergency high-denomination releases that preceded the complete monetary collapse and the government's eventual introduction of the Boliviano in 1987, at a conversion rate of one million to one.
Jeffries Banknote Company of Los Angeles handled the printing — a smaller commercial security printer occasionally contracted by Latin American central banks when European houses were unavailable or too slow to respond to an urgent reorder.