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50 Bolivianos Baca, Racua and Willka
| Issuer | Banco Central de Bolivia |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire, France |
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| Obverse description | Three portrait vignettes at right depict national heroes José Manuel Baca ('Cañoto'), Bruno Racua, and Pablo Zárate Willka, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint with a central vignette of the Inkallajta Fortress. The denomination numeral '50' appears at upper right, with the issuer and state legends running across the top of the note. |
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| Reverse description | A central scenic vignette of Nevado Sajama, Bolivia's highest peak, is rendered in blue and grey tones, flanked at left by a vignette of the Andean Flamingo (Flamenco Andino) and at centre-right by a Royal Quinoa plant (Quinua Real), each identified by its Spanish name. A large denomination numeral '50' in optically variable colour-shifting ink occupies the lower left, with a latent-image '50' at lower right, and the right third of the note carries an intricate guilloche pattern in pale violet. |
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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.