500 — Five Hundred Bolívars
The artwork
Front: Francisco de Miranda, precursor of Venezuelan independence, engraved three-quarter face with his name in small capitals running up the right-hand panel. The denomination stands large at left in slanted numerals over "QUINIENTOS BOLÍVARES", above the pledge to pay the bearer at the bank's offices and two signatures. A star-shaped see-through register at top left carries the half-image of a dolphin; a segmented thread crosses the middle.
Back: "Banco Central de Venezuela" across the top, the national coat of arms at left with its wheatsheaf, weapons and galloping white horse. The main vignette is a pair of toninas — Amazon river dolphins — one adult swimming above a smaller companion, over sea-fan and coral forms. Small caption text names the toninas and the flower worm of Médanos de Coro National Park. The 500 sits large at right.
In circulation
Dated 23 March 2017 and part of the enlarged bolívar fuerte family issued as inflation outran the older notes. Its working life was brief: on 20 August 2018 the bolívar soberano replaced the fuerte at 100,000 to one, and this 500 ceased to be money almost as soon as it reached tills.
Details
- CurrencyBolívar
- DenominationFive Hundred Bolívars
- IssuerBanco Central de Venezuela
- SeriesBolívar fuerte, dated 23 de marzo de 2017
- PrinterCasa de la Moneda de Venezuela (microtext on the reverse)
- SignaturePresidente BCV and Primer Vicepresidente BCV
- SecuritySegmented windowed thread; star-shaped see-through register completing a dolphin; serial number in black at upper left and red at lower right