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500 000 Pesos Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Central de Bolivia |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed cheque-style document with a circular Mercury vignette as underprint at center. The issuer name and document type are letterpress-printed at upper left, while all variable data — including the place and date (La Paz, June 4, 1984), the face value in numerals at right and in words at left — are typewriter-overprinted onto the pre-printed form. The payable-to-bearer instruction and denomination in Pesos Bolivianos appear in the lower portion of the document. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely composed of typewriter-overprinted text on a plain surface. The issuer name appears in spaced lettering across the top, followed by a centered legal instruction exempting the instrument from endorsement requirements, with the face value in numerals flanked by asterisks in the lower portion. |
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By 1984, Bolivia's inflation was accelerating toward what would become one of the worst hyperinflationary episodes in recorded history — peaking above 20,000% annually by 1985. The 500,000 Pesos Bolivianos denomination was not an outlier; it was a stopgap, one of several high-denomination notes rushed into circulation as purchasing power collapsed faster than the presses could respond.
Printed domestically by the Casa de Moneda de Bolivia in Potosí — the colonial mint repurposed for modern currency production — rather than contracted abroad, which was unusual given Bolivia's typical reliance on foreign security printers for this period. The entire Pesos Bolivianos series was rendered obsolete in 1987 when the Boliviano replaced it at a conversion rate of one million to one.