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10 000 Bolívares
| Issuer | Banco Central de Venezuela |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company, New York |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA DIEZ MIL BOLIVARES 10000 |
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| Protection description | Watermark zone on the left side of the obverse and the right side of the reverse, incorporating the denomination numeral 10000. |
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| Comments |
The plate design for this note dates to 1945 — over five decades before the 1998 issue date. American Bank Note Company produced the original intaglio work in New York, and Venezuela continued drawing on that same design architecture through multiple reissue cycles as inflation steadily eroded the denomination's purchasing power. By the late 1990s, 10,000 bolívares had become a routine transaction note rather than the high-value instrument the original design implied.
Venezuela's inflation through the 1980s and 1990s forced the Banco Central to extend the life of existing plate families well beyond any reasonable horizon. A watermark remains the sole security concession on a note circulating in an economy that had already seen the bolívar lose the vast majority of its real value.