50 — Fifty Bolívars
The artwork
Front: Simón Rodríguez in profile, the Caracas tutor who taught the young Bolívar, shown with his round spectacles pushed up on his forehead and hair swept back. The left half carries the denomination as a large grey 50 over the words CINCUENTA BOLÍVARES, the promise to pay the bearer at the Bank's offices, the date 5 de noviembre de 2015, and two signatures. A windowed thread lettered BCV 50 runs down the centre.
Back: An oso frontino — the spectacled bear, South America's only bear — standing four-square and snarling against the olive ridges of the Parque Nacional Sierra Nevada, named in small print beneath its feet. Venezuela's coat of arms with its white horse sits at the left in warm brown, the bank's name arches across the top, and a bold 50 with CINCUENTA BOLÍVARES fills the pale right-hand panel..uerte
In circulation
Part of the bolívar fuerte family introduced in 2008 after the thousand-to-one redenomination, this 50 was reprinted through the decade — hence the November 2015 date. Runaway inflation made it worthless long before it was formally retired by the bolívar soberano of August 2018, which struck five more zeros from the currency.
Details
- CurrencyBolívar
- DenominationFifty Bolívars
- IssuerBanco Central de Venezuela
- SeriesBolívar fuerte; dated 5 de noviembre de 2015
- PrinterCasa de la Moneda de Venezuela
- SecurityWindowed security thread with repeating BCV 50 text
- SignaturePresidente del BCV and Primer Vicepresidente del BCV