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200 000 Bolívares
| Issuer | Banco Central de Venezuela |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Value | 200 000 Bolivars (200 000 VES) |
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| Obverse lettering | República Bolivariana de Venezuela 200 MIL BOLIVARES 3 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2020 PAGADEROS AL PORTADOR EN LAS OFICINAS DEL BANCO SIMÓN BOLÍVAR (Translation: Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Two Hundred Thousand Bolívares September 3rd., 2020 To be paid to bearer at bank office. Simón Bolívar) |
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| Protection description | Simón Bolívar portrait and electrotype BCV; wide segmented security thread embedded vertically through the note. |
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Venezuela's hyperinflationary spiral forced repeated redenominations throughout the late 2010s and into the 2020s, yet the government kept issuing higher-denomination paper rather than adopting a stable anchor currency. This 200,000 bolívar note appeared under the "bolívar soberano" system introduced in 2018, itself a redenomination that lopped five zeros off the old bolívar fuerte — meaning this face value equated to 20,000,000,000 of the pre-2008 unit.
Printed domestically at the Casa de la Moneda in Maracay rather than abroad, the series reflected Caracas's insistence on self-sufficiency even as the physical quality of output declined noticeably compared to earlier BCV issues printed by De La Rue or ABNC.