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50 Bolívares 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo
| Issuer | Banco Central de Venezuela |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Size | 156 × 69 mm |
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| Reverse description | The national Coat of Arms of Venezuela appears at left, with the Triumphal Arch of Carabobo rendered at centre-left. The primary commemorative vignette at centre reproduces Martín Tovar y Tovar's celebrated oil painting of the Battle of Carabobo in green intaglio tones, consistent with the note's overall colour scheme. Commemorative legends marking the bicentenary of the 1821 battle flank the central vignette. |
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| Protection description | Portrait of Simón Bolívar with electrotype text BCV; embedded security thread visible as a vertical stripe on the obverse |
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The Battle of Carabobo, fought on 24 June 1821, effectively ended Spanish royalist control over Venezuela — so the 200th anniversary in 2021 carried genuine commemorative weight. That the note was printed domestically by the Casa de la Moneda in Maracay is notable given Venezuela's prolonged economic crisis; much of the country's banknote production in the preceding decade had been outsourced abroad, to De La Rue and others, as hyperinflation overwhelmed local capacity.
The 50 bolívares denomination sits within the second bolívar soberano series, introduced after the 2018 redenomination stripped six zeros from the currency.