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10 Bolívares
| Issuer | Banco Central de Venezuela |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Value | 10 Bolivars (10 bolívares) (10 VEB) |
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| Obverse description | Violet intaglio printing on a guilloche underprint with a frame-like border. Two oval vignettes flank the central text: at left, a portrait of Simón Bolívar, and at right, a portrait of Marshal Antonio José de Sucre after Arturo Michelena's 19th-century work. The central area carries the denomination numeral '10' above the legend 'DIEZ BOLÍVARES' and the payment clause 'PAGADEROS AL PORTADOR EN LAS OFICINAS DEL BANCO', with the issuer name 'BANCO CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA' across the top and the value word 'DIEZ' repeated in each corner. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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By 1988, Venezuela was deep into the fiscal stress that preceded the Caracazo — the February 1989 social explosion triggered by IMF-mandated austerity and fuel price hikes. Notes from this period circulated hard and fast as purchasing power eroded. The 10 Bolívar denomination, once meaningful, was losing ground to inflation that would within a few years make it essentially worthless in everyday transactions.
ABNC had printed Venezuelan issues for decades by this point, a relationship going back well before the BCV's mid-century note reforms. The watermark is the sole security concession on this paper — no thread, no UV features.