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The severe shortage of change that resulted was met by issuing bank notes for 1, 2, and 5 bolívares. The change in official name to República Bolivariana de Venezuela resulted in a change in the text on bank notes. Denominations with the new name were the 1000, 2000, 5000, and 10,000.
Coat of arms of Venezuela and the name of the country of emission: 12 + 1 ⁄ 2 céntimos: Round: Nickel-plated steel: 3.93 g: 23 mm: Plain: Denomination of the coin, the eight stars of the national flag and two palm branches: Coat of arms of Venezuela and the name of the country of emission: 25 céntimos: Round: Nickel-plated steel: 3.86 g: 20 ...
Coat of arms of Venezuela and the name of the country of issue The Venezuelan twelve-and-a-half-céntimo coin ( 12 + 1 ⁄ 2 céntimos), was a cupro-nickel money and that was worth one-eighth of a silver Venezuelan Bolivar (VEB), [ 1 ] this round piece of metal was known also with the very popular nicknames of " locha " ( pronounced [ˈlotʃa ...
However, since the oil glut of the 1980s and the first serious devaluation of the currency in 1983 (known in Venezuela as Viernes Negro, or Black Friday) the bolívar has been plagued with chronic instability, mistrust and declining value that has been fed by the continued rise in inflation, topping an estimate for 2018 of one million per cent.
On June 11, 1873, the government ordered subsidiary silver coins of 5, 10, 20, and 50 centésimos de venezolano from Paris. An order for gold coins was placed on September 16, 1874, originally for pieces of 1, 5, 10, and 20 venezolanos, the 20-venezolano gold piece to be called the Bolívar .
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This is a list of years in Venezuela. See also the timeline of Venezuelan history . For only articles about years in Venezuela that have been written, see Category:Years in Venezuela .
The Bs.F 2 and Bs.F 5 notes were no longer found in circulation due to the inflation, but remain legal tender until they were demonetized in August 2018. By early-December 2016, the Bs.F 100 note, Venezuela's largest denomination of currency, was only worth about US$0.23 on the black market. [20]