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100 Bolívares
| Issuer | Banco Central de Venezuela |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour note in tones of violet, pink, orange, and teal, with a large intaglio vignette of General Ezequiel Zamora in left profile at centre-right, wearing a military peaked cap, his name inscribed below in small lettering. The upper left carries the bold numeral "100" in red and the legend "CIEN BOLIVARES" in blue, above the date "15 DE ENERO DE 2018" and the payable clause, with two facsimile signatures below their respective titles "PRESIDENTE BCV" and "PRIMER VICEPRESIDENTE BCV". A diagonal guilloche band in light blue traverses the centre of the note, overlaid with a cursive microprint underprint, while three colour-shifting OVI patches are arranged horizontally across the middle field. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread, OVI ink |
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Venezuela's hyperinflationary spiral was accelerating sharply by 2018 — the official inflation rate that year exceeded one million percent. The 100 Bolívar note, once a meaningful denomination, had become essentially worthless in daily transactions before it even finished printing. That print run of just over twelve million was modest by Venezuelan standards of the period, reflecting how quickly the government was being forced to issue successor series at higher denominations.
Later that same year, the Bolívar Soberano was introduced, redenominating at 100,000 old bolívares to one new unit — rendering this note a rounding error.