Bolivia 1951-H boliviano

from the Mountain Groan Collection

The specimen shown is a type struck by the Heaton mint for Bolivia in 1951. It, with an accompanying five and ten bolivianos, was the last coinage issue until 1965. It is also reported from the Potosi mint and the King's Norton mint in Britain. In 1965 the boliviano, which had not been struck since 1951, was dropped in favor of the peso boliviano, which lasted until 1979. In 1987 the boliviano was resumed, with 1 boliviano = 1,000,000 pesos boliviano. Much of South America went through the same hyperinflationary stress as Bolivia, exacerbated by incompetent military rule. The coin has little collector value except in Uncirculated.

Recorded mintage: 15,000,000.

Specification: bronze.

Catalog reference: KM 184.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

Link to:

• 1942 50 centavos
• 1951-H 5 bolivianos
• 1951 10 bolivianos
• 1965 10 centavos
• 1978 10 pesos bolivianos
• Coins and currency dated 1951
• return to coins of Bolivia