Catalog
50 Bolivianos Holguin, Series D-E
| Issuer | Banco Central de Bolivia |
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| Year | 1995-2001 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Banco Central de Bolivia Cincuenta Bolivianos Melchor Pérez de Holguin LEY 901 DEL 28 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1986 |
| Reverse description | Central vignette presents an intaglio rendering of the Torre de la Compañía in Potosí, its ornate Baroque façade framed by flowing ribbon guilloche elements in violet-purple. The numerals '50' appear in the upper right and lower left corners, with the denomination text set along the lower margin. |
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The Banco Central de Bolivia's 50 Bolivianos note belongs to the post-hyperinflation rebuilding of Bolivian currency — the boliviano itself was only reintroduced in 1987, replacing the peso boliviano at a rate of one million to one after inflation had rendered smaller denominations meaningless. By the mid-1990s, when this series entered circulation, the central bank was still working to establish credibility in a denomination structure that a decade earlier had been effectively worthless at equivalent face value.
The "Holguin" designation and the D-E series indicators suggest this ran across two distinct print orders within the six-year issue window, though the print figures listed — 20,000 each in 1885 and 1886 — appear to be erroneous metadata, almost certainly misattributed from a different catalog entry entirely.