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50 Bolivianos Baca, Racua and Willka

Issuer Banco Central de Bolivia
Year 2019
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Printer Oberthur Fiduciaire, France
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Reverse lettering BANCO CENTRAL DE BOLIVIA ESTADO PLURINACIONAL DE BOLIVIA CINCUENTA BOLIVIANOS NEVADO SAJAMA FLAMENCO ANDINO QUINUA REAL
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Protection description Embedded security thread with microtext; watermark visible when held to light; optically variable colour-shifting ink on the large '50' numeral on the reverse; latent image '50' at lower right of reverse
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The three names in the title belong to Zárate Willka, Andrés Ibáñez, and Lucía Baca — figures drawn from Bolivia's long history of peasant and indigenous uprisings, and a deliberate departure from the creole elite who dominated earlier Bolivian currency portraiture. Willka, a Quechua leader who mobilized indigenous forces during the 1899 Federal War, was subsequently captured and executed — a detail the Bolivian state spent most of the twentieth century omitting from official memory.

Oberthur Fiduciaire has printed the majority of Bolivia's post-2018 commemorative series from Chantepie.

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