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| Issuer | Banco Central de Bolivia |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Size | 140 × 69 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE BOLIVIA ESTADO PLURINACIONAL DE BOLIVIA LEY 901 DEL 28 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1986 FUERTE DE SAMAYPATA GENOVEVA RÍOS TOMÁS KATARI PEDRO IGNACIO MUIBA VEINTE BOLIVIANOS PRESIDENTE a.i. BCB GERENTE GENERAL a.i. BCB |
| Reverse description | The back is dominated by a richly coloured landscape vignette of Laguna Bay rendered in deep blue and green tones, with a towering Toborochi tree (Árbol Toborochi) in full orange bloom rising at centre-right above dense tropical shoreline vegetation. A black caiman (Caimán Negro) rests on the bank in the lower centre, with a second caiman vignette placed in the upper left above the waterline. The denomination numeral '20' in large tricolour figures occupies the lower left beneath the legend 'VEINTE BOLIVIANOS', with the issuer title repeated in bold lettering across the top. |
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Bolivia's 2018 series was a deliberate reorientation — the Banco Central moved away from the creole liberators who had dominated Bolivian paper money for generations and replaced them with indigenous and mestizo figures. The three names on this note reflect that policy shift: Juana Azurduy de Padilla's war companions and regional leaders largely overlooked by the earlier nationalist iconography.
Oberthur Fiduciaire, working from their Chantepie facility, handles a significant share of Latin American central bank contracts. Nothing about the printing here is unusual for the series.