20000 — Twenty Thousand Bolívars
The artwork
Front: A young woman in three-quarter view fills the right half, hair dressed with a plain fillet — Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi, the independence-era heroine imprisoned during the fighting on Margarita. Left of her, VEINTE MIL BOLÍVARES beneath a tall green 20000, the promise to pay at the Bank's offices, and the date 18 de agosto de 2016. A broad segmented window strip runs vertically, repeating the value; raised dots for the blind sit low and centre, with serial A15480058 in black and red.
Back: Two cardenalitos — the red siskin, once Venezuela's most trafficked songbird — perched on a leafy branch, the ridge of El Ávila rising in warm ochre behind them, captioned in small type "Cardenalitos / Parque Nacional El Ávila". Banco Central de Venezuela runs across the top left, with the national arms, the white horse quartered in the shield, printed in orange-red beside it. A large 20000 and VEINTE MIL BOLÍVARES anchor the pale right-hand panel. notes bear the mint's name vertically at the edge.
In circulation
One of the emergency high denominations run out at the end of 2016 as hyperinflation outstripped the existing bolívar fuerte notes; it reached tills through 2017. On 20 August 2018 the bolívar soberano replaced the fuerte at 100,000 to one, reducing this 20,000 to twenty céntimos and retiring the design.
Details
- CurrencyBolívar
- DenominationTwenty Thousand Bolívars
- IssuerBanco Central de Venezuela
- SeriesBolívar fuerte, dated 18 de agosto de 2016
- PrinterCasa de la Moneda de Venezuela (named on the back)
- SecurityWide segmented window strip repeating 20000; raised tactile dots on the face
- SignaturePresidente BCV and Primer Vicepresidente BCV