Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
20 000 Bolívares
| Issuer | Banco Central de Venezuela |
|---|---|
| Year | 2001-2006 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | 156 × 69 mm |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Ocher-toned reverse centered on a vignette of Angel Falls, discovered in 1937 by James (Jimmy) Angel, flanked by two Guacamaya (scarlet macaw) parrots and an orchid of the species Cattleya mosiae; the national coat of arms appears at left. The issuer name BANCO CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA runs along the top, the denomination in numerals is at upper right and lower left, and the value in words appears at lower right and lower left, the latter instance rotated 90°, with the inscription SALTO ANGEL identifying the waterfall. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Venezuela's Casa de la Moneda in Maracay has produced domestic currency since the late 1980s, a shift away from the foreign contract printers — primarily De La Rue and the American Bank Note Company — that had supplied Venezuelan notes for most of the twentieth century. The 20,000 bolívar denomination itself is a marker of how severely inflation had eroded purchasing power by the early 2000s; a note of this face value would have been unthinkable two decades earlier.
The Pick 86 series ran through 2006, shortly before the 2008 redenomination introduced the bolívar fuerte at a ratio of 1,000 to one — rendering these notes obsolete almost immediately.