10000 — Ten Thousand Bolívars
The artwork
Front: A clean-shaven civilian in a dark coat, hair swept back in waves, a pince-nez on a slender handle raised beside his face — Simón Rodríguez, Bolívar's tutor. The left third carries stylised petroglyph figures and geometric line-work in blue and jade over a pale watermark panel, with "República Bolivariana de Venezuela" set vertically, the value in words, "Diez Mil Bolívares", and the promise to pay the bearer at the Bank's offices.
Back: An oso frontino — the Andean spectacled bear, captioned "Parque Nacional Sierra Nevada" — stands broadside in fine engraved line, muzzle open, against blue ridge-lines of the Mérida cordillera. "Banco Central de Venezuela" runs across the top left above the national arms; the columns of small 10000s frame both edges, and a large 10000 with "Diez Mil Bolívares" fills the right. A star and hand-motif device sits top right.
In circulation
Part of the high-value extension to the bolívar fuerte announced at the end of 2016, when inflation had left the 100 as the largest note. It served barely eighteen months: the redenomination of 20 August 2018 swept away the whole fuerte family at 100,000 to one, this note becoming ten céntimos of the new bolívar soberano.
Details
- CurrencyBolívar
- DenominationTen Thousand Bolívars
- IssuerBanco Central de Venezuela
- SeriesDated 18 de agosto de 2016; serial A05830173, single-letter prefix, black at upper left and red at lower right
- PrinterCasa de la Moneda de Venezuela (marked vertically at the right edge of the back)
- SignaturePresidente BCV and Primer Vicepresidente BCV
- SecuritySegmented windowed thread reading "BCV 10"; raised tactile dots for the blind at lower centre of the face