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2 Bolívares, Banco Central de Venezuela, 2018

2 Bolívares — Banco Central de Venezuela

AlbumRest of the world Venezuela series 2018 UNC very common
Obverse 600 dpi
Reverse 600 dpi

This copy

Accession
OM-00543
Serial
H 54595519
Series year
2018
Actually issued
2018
Signatures
This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.
Grade
UNC (IBNS)

Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.

Estimated value
$10 indicative

Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-10-03.

Dimensions
156.2 × 71.9 mm (±2.1, from the scan)
Themes
ModernVenezuelaHyperinflationPortrait

The type

Type
2 Bolívares, Banco Central de Venezuela, 2018
Portrait
José Félix Ribas
Watermark
Simón Bolívar
Rarity
very common

Symbology

General José Félix Ribas
A leader of the Venezuelan War of Independence (1775–1815), remembered for the 1814 victory at La Victoria won with student and seminarian volunteers.
Yellow-shouldered Amazon parrot
On the reverse, a parrot of the Venezuelan coast set in Morrocoy National Park — the series pairs each note with a national animal and landscape.

What was happening

A relic of collapse. By 2018 Venezuelan hyperinflation had made the bolívar fuerte unusable, and on 20 August 2018 the government introduced the bolívar soberano ("sovereign bolívar"), lopping five zeros off the old unit — one new bolívar for 100,000 old. It was the second redenomination in a decade; the bolívar fuerte of 2008 had already struck off three.

This 2 Bolívares note, dated 15 January 2018, is among the smallest values of that new series. The face carries a portrait of General José Félix Ribas (1775–1815), a hero of the independence war, with the national arms; the back shows a yellow-shouldered Amazon parrot in the landscape of Morrocoy National Park. The redenomination did nothing to arrest the inflation, and notes like this were worthless within months of issue.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 2 Bolívares, Banco Central de Venezuela, 2018 in the collection.

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