Bolivian Money - For Now, That Is...

You can read more about the history and background of Bolivian currency here. Once you've done that you can move on to my pages on the Bolivian economy, banking in Bolivia, money exchange, and information on doing business in Bolivia. This page is linked from my Bolivian Economy and Bolivian Currency pages and will contain only photos of our money.

Bolivia has bills in denominations of 100, 50, 20 and 10 bolivianos. There is also (or used to be also a 200 boliviano bill but I haven't seen one in ages - it's brownish). There are also coins. The coin with the gold center and silver outer rim is worth Bs. 5 and it replaced our 5 boliviano bill (which was blue) years ago. There are also coins worth 1 and 2 bolivianos as well as coins worth 10, 20, and 50 centavos (cents of a boliviano).

Currently (March 2009) the exchange rate is Bs. 7.07 per dollar (when exchanging dollars for bolivianos) and Bs. 6.97 (when exchanging bolivianos for dollars) so you lose a little value when you buy dollars with your bolivianos but you get more if you are buying bolivianos with your dollars. That's because the dollar is a stronger currency so you have to pay more to get it. The boliviano is weaker so you get more for your dollar. Make sense?

And just today (20 March 2009) the government announced that it doesn't plan to adjust the exchange rate to the fluctuation of the dollar for a good long time to come (normally the exchange rate goes up and down on a near-daily basis and you have to wake up every morning and read the newspaper to see how much your money is worth on any given day).

Anyways, this means that at this time Bs. 100 is equivalent to US$ 14.14. Not much huh.

Bolivian Money: Coins

Bolivian Money: Bills

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