Catalog
500 Bolívares
| Issuer | Banco Central de Venezuela |
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| Year | 1981-1998 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA QUINIENTOS BOLÍVARES PAGADEROS AL PORTADOR EN LAS OFICINAS DEL BANCO 500 |
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| Protection description | Simón Bolívar portrait visible in the blank zone at left on the obverse and right on the reverse. |
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The P#67 500 Bolívares series had an unusually long run — seventeen years across multiple date varieties — largely because Venezuela's oil-dependent economy kept lurching between stability and inflation without ever fully collapsing the currency fast enough to force a redesign. By the mid-1990s, the Bolívar had lost the bulk of its purchasing power, and a 500-unit note that once held real transactional weight had become routine pocket change.
Bundesdruckerei supplied the printing throughout the series. The Berlin firm had a substantial Latin American client base during this period, picking up contracts that De La Rue and American Bank Note had historically dominated.