5 — Five Bolívars
The artwork
Front: A dark engraved head, wrapped in cloth, set against pale rock-art figures — running animals and stick-limbed hunters in white and rust that spill across the whole width of the note. This is Pedro Camejo, the lancer known as Negro Primero, of whom no life portrait survives. To the left, "República Bolivariana de Venezuela" and "Cinco Bolívares" in upright type, with the two bank signatures and the date 20 de marzo de 2007.
Back: Two giant armadillos, adult and young, walking nose-down through llanos grass, captioned in small type as Cuspón (Cabasú Gigante), Los Llanos. Behind them a wash of red-brown gallery trees and yellow palm fronds fills the corners. The national arms sit at the left, "Banco Central de Venezuela" runs across the top, and a large 5 with CINCO BOLÍVARES anchors the right.
In circulation
Part of the bolívar fuerte family that came into use on 1 January 2008, when 1,000 old bolívares became one new one. It circulated through the following decade until the 2018 redenomination swept it away, the bolívar soberano replacing it at 100,000 to one.
Details
- CurrencyBolívar
- DenominationFive Bolívars
- IssuerBanco Central de Venezuela
- SeriesBolívar fuerte, dated 20 de marzo de 2007
- PrinterCasa de la Moneda de Venezuela
- SignaturePresidente del BCV and Primer Vicepresidente del BCV
- SecuritySerial with single-letter prefix, black at upper left and red at lower right