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20.000 Bolívares
| Issuer | Banco Central de Venezuela |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Value | 20.000 Bolívares |
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| Obverse lettering | República Bolivariana de Venezuela 20000 VEINTE MIL BOLÍVARES 22 de Enero de 2019 Pagaderos al Portador en las Oficinas del Banco PRESIDENTE BCV PRIMER VICEPRESIDENTE BCV |
| Reverse description | Green reverse centred on a vignette of the Mausoleo del Libertador Simón Bolívar in Caracas, rendered with fine guilloche linework and flanked by palm trees; the Venezuelan national coat of arms appears at upper left. The inscription 'Banco Central de Venezuela' runs across the top, while 'VEINTE MIL BOLÍVARES' and the numeral '20000' are printed in large characters at lower right, with a repeated latent-image numeral stack at left. |
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Venezuela's Casa de la Moneda had been printing the country's own currency since 2015, a political decision driven by the government's reluctance to continue paying foreign printers — chiefly De La Rue — amid foreign currency shortages. Domestic production cut costs in bolivars but introduced real constraints on security feature sophistication, and the 2019 series reflects those limits: the thread, watermark, and latent image package is notably modest against international standards for high-denomination notes.
The 20,000 Bolívar Soberano was obsolete almost immediately. Hyperinflation had already rendered it functionally worthless in daily commerce by the time distribution reached provincial branches.