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100 Bolivares
| Issuer | Banco Venezolano de Crédito |
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| Year | 1931-1939 |
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| Currency | Bolivar (1879-2007) |
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| Obverse description | A central allegorical vignette presents a seated female figure writing upon a tablet held by a cherub, with a bag of scattered coins at her feet; the composition is rendered in the classical intaglio style typical of Waterlow & Sons productions. The issuer name arches across the upper border, while the face value in numerals occupies all four corners and is repeated to the right of the central vignette, with the denomination in words below. Two red serial numbers appear in the upper field, and manuscript spaces are left blank for the handwritten date and authorising signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO VENEZOLANO DE CREDITO 100 (Translation: Venezuelan Credit Bank 100) |
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Banco Venezolano de Crédito was a private commercial bank, and this note belongs to a period when Venezuela still permitted private institutions to issue their own currency — a practice that ended definitively when the Banco Central de Venezuela was established in 1940. The timing is tight: notes from the tail end of this series were almost certainly pulled from circulation during that transition, which compressed their effective lifespan considerably.
Waterlow & Sons printed for dozens of governments and banks during this period, and the color-fibre paper was a deliberate security measure the firm applied selectively to higher-denomination private bank issues.