500 Bolívares

Banco de Venezuela was a private commercial bank, not a central bank — Venezuela had no central bank until 1940. Notes issued under this series circulated alongside competing issues from other private institutions, a fragmented arrangement that persisted well into the early twentieth century. The 500 Bolívares denomination was strictly high-register; everyday commerce never saw these.

ABNC held long-term engraving relationships with most major Latin American issuers at this period, and the plates for Venezuelan private bank notes were almost certainly shared or adapted across the firm's broader regional portfolio. Worth examining the fine-line lathe work in the border geometry against other ABNC South American issues of the same decade.