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200 000 Bolívares
| Issuer | Banco Central de Venezuela |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Printer | Casa de la Moneda de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela (1989-date) |
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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) |
| Reverse description | Horizontal format with pale rose underprint. Central vignette of the Mausoleum of the Liberator Simón Bolívar and the National Pantheon in Caracas; the Coat of Arms of Venezuela is positioned to the left. The issuer name appears in legend at upper left, the face value in numerals and text is rendered rotated 90° at lower left and in upright position at lower right, with the printer's name along the lower right margin. |
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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.