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5 Bolívares
| Issuer | Estados Unidos de Venezuela |
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| Year | 1879-1936 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 2011 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a bare, unadorned left-facing portrait bust of Simón Bolívar, the Liberator, rendered in high relief with finely engraved wavy hair swept back from the forehead. The bust is truncated at the neck and placed centrally in an otherwise plain field. The legend BOLIVAR is inscribed along the left periphery and LIBERTADOR along the right periphery, both reading upward from the base. The engraver's signature BARRE appears in small capitals beneath the bust truncation along the lower rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | BOLÍVAR LIBERTADOR BARRE (Translation: Bolivar Liberator) |
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Venezuela's 5 Bolívares was struck almost entirely in Europe — primarily at the Paris and Brussels mints — because the country lacked domestic minting infrastructure capable of handling large silver coinage for most of this period. The long date range conceals substantial gaps in production; issues were ordered in response to specific fiscal pressures rather than on any regular schedule, making certain individual dates genuinely scarce while others are comparatively plentiful.
The Y#24.1 and Y#24.2 varieties are distinguished principally by differences in the edge lettering.