1000 Bolívares

Venezuela's Banco Central began issuing this denomination amid the fallout from the February 1994 banking crisis — one of the worst financial collapses in Venezuelan history, in which roughly half the country's banking sector failed within months and the government spent an estimated 75% of GDP attempting to contain it. Inflation was running well above 70% annually by mid-decade, and a 1000 Bolívar note that felt substantial in 1994 was effectively pocket change within a few years.

Printed domestically at the Casa de la Moneda in Maracay, the series was among the last of its denomination before hyperinflationary pressure forced the introduction of far higher face values.