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20 000 Bolívares
| Issuer | Banco Central de Venezuela |
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| Year | 2016-2017 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Simón Bolívar at centre, rendered in deep carmine on a pink and peach guilloche underprint, with floral vignettes at left and a small red siskin vignette at right. The large numeral '20000' appears in the upper left quadrant alongside the denomination in full text, with the issuer's title across the top and the date of issue below. Three windowed security threads are visible across the centre band, and the serial number is printed vertically at right and horizontally at lower left. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread, Optically variable ink |
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The 20,000 Bolívar note was introduced in December 2016 as Venezuela's highest denomination — a figure that would have been unthinkable a decade earlier. By the time it entered circulation, hyperinflation had already begun eating through its purchasing power faster than the notes could be distributed. The Casa de la Moneda de Venezuela, which had been printing under severe resource constraints, struggled to meet demand throughout the series run.
Within eighteen months of issue, the note was effectively worthless in practical terms, and the entire Bolívar Fuerte currency family was superseded by the Bolívar Soberano in August 2018 — a redenomination that lopped five zeros off the face values.