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100 000 Bolívares
| Issuer | Banco Central de Venezuela |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 100 000 Bolivars (100 000 VEF) |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of two red siskins (Cardenalitos, Spinus cucullatus) perched on branches with foliage, set against a mountainous landscape background in olive and gold tones evoking Parque Nacional El Ávila. The Coat of Arms of Venezuela appears at the left margin, and the large numeral '100' with the full denomination in text is printed to the right on a pale blue guilloche ground. Vertical denomination repeated in microtext lines flanks both side margins. |
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| Protection description | Simón Bolívar with the letters BCV below; windowed security thread embedded in the paper. |
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Venezuela's 100,000 bolívar note was introduced in March 2017 as the country's highest denomination to that point — a figure that would have been unthinkable a decade earlier. By the time it entered circulation, hyperinflation was accelerating so violently that the note's purchasing power eroded within weeks of issue. The Casa de la Moneda de Venezuela, the state printing facility in Maracay, produced the entire run domestically, a point of political pride for the Maduro government despite severe shortages of imported cotton paper and ink that repeatedly disrupted production schedules.
Within eighteen months, this denomination was rendered functionally worthless by the August 2018 monetary redenomination, which lopped five zeros off the currency.