Venezuela P-70 5 bolívares 1989 UNC

You will receive a banknote of the design indicated in UNC (uncirculated) condition, with either a 7- or 8-digit serial number. Serial numbers will vary, images are illustrative only.

Date of issue: September 21, 1989 (only)

Color: Red on multicolor underprint.

Front: Simon Bolivar at left, and Francisco de Miranda at right

Back: National Pantheon of Venezuela

Subtypes: P-70a, seven-digital serial number. P-70b, eight-digit serial number.

Simón Bolívar (1783–1830) was the driving force behind the liberation of much of northern South America from Spanish rule. A brilliant yet restless figure, he combined military daring with sweeping political vision, imagining a new republic built on shared citizenship rather than colonial hierarchy. His campaigns reshaped an entire continent, and even after his dream of a unified state collapsed, his name endured as a symbol of independence, ambition, and the belief that history could be bent by will and conviction.

Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816) was the original revolutionary cosmopolitan—a soldier, thinker, and adventurer who fought in the American and French Revolutions before turning his attention to freeing his own region from empire. Long before independence became inevitable, Miranda carried its ideas across oceans, meeting kings, philosophers, and generals while laying the intellectual groundwork for what others would later achieve on the battlefield. He is remembered as the visionary precursor: the man who imagined freedom first, even if he did not live to see it fulfilled.

The National Pantheon of Venezuela, in the capital Caracas just north of the old colonial core, is the country’s most symbolic memorial space, reserved for figures considered foundational to the nation’s history. Originally a church, it was transformed into a secular mausoleum where the remains of independence leaders, writers, and national heroes are honored beneath a richly decorated interior. More than a burial site, it functions as a civic shrine—a place where history, memory, and political identity intersect, and where the story of the nation is formally curated and reaffirmed.