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4 Soles
| Issuer | Republic of Bolivia |
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| Year | 1827-1829 |
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| Diameter | 32 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central design features a large tree flanked by two alpacas couchant, one on each side, all set upon a ground line. Seven six-pointed stars arc above the central device. The circular legend REPUBLICA BOLIVIANA surrounds the design, with the denomination 4S, mint mark PTS, date, and assayer initials inscribed in the lower field. The composition is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA BOLIVIANA · PTS · 4S · 1827 · J · M · |
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Bolivia's earliest republican coinage was struck at Potosí, the same mountain mint that had poured silver into global trade for three centuries under Spanish rule. The transition from colonial to republican types was administratively chaotic — assayers changed, dies were inconsistently prepared, and the new national imagery had to be rushed into production while the political situation remained unsettled in the wake of Sucre's 1825 declaration of independence.
The 4 Soles denomination was short-lived by design, absorbed into the decimal reforms that reshaped Bolivian coinage in the early 1830s.