Catalog
20 Bolívares
| Issuer | Banco Venezolano de Crédito |
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| Year | 1931-1939 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark green intaglio-printed note with the bank title BANCO VENEZOLANO DE CRÉDITO arched across the upper portion in bold letterpress. The central vignette, framed by an oval guilloche border, presents an agricultural harvest scene with workers gathering crops in a rural landscape. The denomination numeral '20' appears in the upper left and right corners, with the text VEINTE BOLÍVARES in a panel below the central vignette, alongside a capital notation and the place of issue Caracas. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO VENEZOLANO DE CRÉDITO 20 |
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The Banco Venezolano de Crédito was a private commercial bank operating under Venezuela's 1940 banking law predecessor framework, and its note-issuing authority during the 1930s placed it among a handful of regional banks still legally permitted to circulate private paper alongside the Banco Central, which would not be established until 1939. That institutional shift effectively ended this series — notes dated into 1939 were among the last issued before centralized currency control rendered private bank circulation obsolete.
ABNC printed for dozens of Latin American issuers during this period, and the S247 shares production infrastructure with several contemporary Venezuelan private bank issues. Distinguishing genuine from later forgeries typically comes down to the intaglio depth on the serial numerals.