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10 000 Bolívares
| Issuer | Banco Central de Venezuela |
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| Year | 2019 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Simón Bolívar at centre-lower, identified by a caption below, set against a light guilloche underprint with floral motifs and star vignettes. The denomination 10000 appears in large bold numerals at upper left, with the inscription DIEZ MIL BOLÍVARES and the date 22 DE ENERO DE 2019 below. Two facsimile signatures of bank officials are printed at mid-left, with the serial number appearing vertically at right and horizontally at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the National Pantheon in Caracas, the mausoleum housing the remains of Simón Bolívar, rendered in intaglio against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The Venezuelan coat of arms appears on the design, accompanied by the issuing bank name and denomination numerals repeated across the note. |
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Venezuela's hyperinflationary collapse made this note obsolete almost immediately after issue. By the time the 10,000 bolívar soberano entered circulation in 2019, the country's annualized inflation rate had already exceeded one million percent — a figure confirmed by the IMF — and monthly price increases were swallowing denominations faster than the Casa de la Moneda could produce them. The note was itself a product of the 2018 redenomination that lopped five zeroes off the bolívar fuerte, yet the underlying monetary crisis rendered even this rescaled currency unworkable within months.
Printed domestically at the Caracas mint rather than outsourced abroad as in earlier Venezuelan series, the security package is notably thin for a high-denomination note of this period.