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20 Bolívares
| Issuer | Banco Venezolano de Crédito |
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| Year | 1925-1928 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and multicolour note with the bank title BANCO VENEZOLANO DE CREDITO in bold lettering across the top. A central vignette portrays a pastoral agricultural scene with cattle and a figure, framed by guilloche borders. The denomination numeral 20 appears in large figures at lower left and right corners, with the inscription VEINTE BOLIVARES across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, the reverse centres on a rectangular vignette of cattle grazing in a pastoral landscape, enclosed within an ornate guilloche frame. The denomination numeral 20 is printed in large figures at both left and right sides. The bank name BANCO VENEZOLANO DE CREDITO appears in a panel along the lower centre of the design. |
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The Banco Venezolano de Crédito was a Caracas-based private commercial bank authorized to issue notes under Venezuela's pluralist banking regime of the early twentieth century, before the Banco Central de Venezuela was established in 1940 and terminated all private note-issuing privileges. This S242 issue belongs to that final window of private circulation, printed during the Gómez dictatorship when the government maintained tight control over banking concessions but left note design largely to individual institutions.
The "S" prefix in the Pick reference denotes a regional or private issuer — appropriate here, as these notes never achieved nationwide penetration comparable to government-backed paper.