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5 Bolívares Caracas Quadricentenary
| Issuer | Banco Central de Venezuela |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Value | 5 Bolivars (5 bolívares) (5 VEB) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA CINCO BOLÍVARES PAGADEROS AL PORTADOR EN LAS OFICINAS DEL BANCO CUATRICENTENARIO DE LA FUNDACION DE CARACAS 1567-1967 CINCO 5 |
| Reverse description | Blue intaglio design without underprint. The central vignette presents a reproduction of the 1578 map of Caracas drawn by Diego de Henares, flanked at left by the Coat of Arms of Caracas and at right by the Coat of Arms of Venezuela, all within an elaborate guilloche framework. The issuing authority BANCO CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA is inscribed at the top, the denomination CINCO BOLÍVARES appears at the bottom, and the numeral 5 in varying guilloche work occupies each corner. |
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Venezuela issued this 5 Bolívares note in 1966 to mark the 400th anniversary of Caracas's founding — or more precisely, the founding of Santiago de León de Caracas in 1567 by Diego de Losada. The commemorative occasion made this a departure from the standard Bolívares series, and the American Bank Note Company engraving credit to Felipe Sánchez is worth noting: Sánchez was one of the few Venezuelan nationals credited on ABNC-produced work during this period, suggesting a deliberate nod to national authorship on a patriotic issue.
Pick 49 is scarcer in genuinely circulated grades than its print run would suggest — commemorative issues of this type were frequently set aside by the public on release.