5 Bolivianos

Bolivia reintroduced the boliviano in 1987 after the catastrophic hyperinflation of the mid-1980s, when the peso boliviano had collapsed so completely that the government simply redenominated at 1,000,000 to one. The 5 bolivianos coin arrived decades later as the highest-denomination circulating coin in the series, reflecting gradual confidence in monetary stability that would have seemed implausible to anyone holding bolivianos in 1985.

The bimetallic construction was adopted partly as an anti-counterfeiting measure, a common choice across Latin American mints in the 2000s as regional counterfeiting of high-denomination coins became a documented problem.