5 Bolívares

Venezuela's leprosarium scrip occupies a genuinely strange corner of monetary history. The Leproserías Nacionales issued these notes as internal currency for patients legally confined to isolation colonies — most notably Cabo Blanco and the Isla de Providencia facilities — whose regular money was considered a contagion risk and confiscated upon admission. The scrip could only be spent within the colony, effectively creating a closed monetary loop enforced by quarantine law.

Printed domestically by Imprenta de Bellas Artes, the series runs across several denominations. Survival rates are low — not because of heavy circulation, but because the colonies were eventually disbanded and most remaining stock destroyed along with other patient property.