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10 000 Bolívares
| Issuer | Banco Central de Venezuela |
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| Year | 2016-2017 |
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| Value | 10 000 Bolivars (10 000 VEF) |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
| Protection description | Simón Rodríguez portrait with electrotype denomination '10000'; embedded security thread visible as dashed blue stripe when held to light |
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| Comments |
By the time this note entered circulation, Venezuela's inflation rate was already rendering it nearly worthless within weeks of issue. The 10,000 bolívar denomination — the highest in the series when introduced in 2016 — could not keep pace with prices that were doubling every few months under the Maduro government's economic collapse. The Banco Central stopped publishing inflation figures entirely in 2016, a silence that itself tells the story.
Printed domestically at the Casa de la Moneda facility in Maracay rather than sourced from an overseas security printer, the note's relatively sparse security feature set reflects both cost constraints and the accelerating futility of the exercise.