5 Bolívares (= 1 Venezolano)

Estado Guayana was one of several Venezuelan regional states that briefly exercised note-issuing authority in the late 1870s, before the central government moved to consolidate monetary control. The denomination itself signals the transitional moment: the bolívar had only been officially established as Venezuela's national currency unit in 1879, replacing the venezolano, and this note was printed straddling both systems — five bolívares equated directly to one venezolano at the fixed conversion rate.

Regional issues from this period are among the rarest Venezuelan paper of the nineteenth century. Guayana's economic base was too thin to sustain significant note circulation, and redemption was erratic at best.