Catalog
2000 Bolívares
| Issuer | Banco Central de Venezuela |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Size | 157 × 69 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | Banco Central de Venezuela Águila Arpía Salto Ucaima y Tepuyes Venado y Kurún, Parque Nacional Canaima 2000 DOS MIL BOLIVARES (Translation: Central Bank of Venezuela Harpy Eagle Ucaima Falls and Kurun & Venado Tepuys, Canaima National Park 2000 TWO THOUSAND BOLIVARS) |
| Signature(s) | watermark: watermark: |
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By 2016, Venezuela's monetary situation was deteriorating fast enough that the government turned to Cuba's state mint to handle part of its banknote production — a politically convenient arrangement given the two governments' alignment, but an unusual one for a country that had previously relied on established European and American security printers. The 2,000 bolívar denomination itself was introduced as hyperinflation eroded the purchasing power of smaller notes into near-irrelevance.
Security provision on this issue is relatively modest for the period — watermark and thread, without the optical features common on contemporaneous issues from De La Rue or Giesecke & Devrient.