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500 Bolívares
| Issuer | Banco de Venezuela |
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| Year | 1910 |
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| Currency | Bolívar (1879-1983) |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue, the reverse centres on the Venezuelan national coat of arms within a large circular guilloche medallion, displaying the shield with a horse, sheaves of wheat, and crossed flags, surmounted by a crest and flanked by laurel branches. The inscription BANCO DE VENEZUELA arches across the top of the central medallion, with VENEZUELA completing the legend below. Denomination numerals 500 appear in all four corners within intricate lathe-work frames, and the printer's imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK is present at the foot of the note. |
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| Variants | P#289 - Specimen |
| Comments |
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.