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5 Bolivianos Series D-E
| Issuer | Banco Central de Bolivia |
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| Year | 1995-2001 |
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| Currency | Second boliviano (1986-date) |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
| Protection description | Watermark portrait of Adela Zamudio; solid embedded security thread |
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Bolivia's chronic inflation history makes the 5 Boliviano denomination worth pausing on. The boliviano itself was only reintroduced in 1987, replacing the peso boliviano at a rate of one million to one — a direct consequence of the hyperinflationary collapse of the mid-1980s, during which annual inflation briefly exceeded 20,000 percent. This note belongs to the stabilized period that followed, when maintaining public confidence in small-denomination paper was still a deliberate policy concern.
Thomas De La Rue's production for this series ran across two suffix letter groups, with D and E prefix notes showing minor variation in security thread specification between earlier and later printings. Worth confirming against the specific serial prefix before cataloging.