Currency Today : Venezuela 18

It has been a while since I have added some Venezolan notes.

More can be found under : Previous issues Venezuela

As a quick reminder, the series of banknotes, started with the Bolívares Fuertes (BsF), in 2007.
With a set of 2 Bolívares, up to a 100 Bolívares -note.
In 2017, the set was extended (replaced) by higher values of the BsF currency.
A set of 500 BsF to 100,000 BsF was in use.

Boliváres Fuertes 2007-2017

From 2018 on, the BsF was replaced by new notes, omitting 5 zero's.
The new 200,000 BsF became a 2 BsS-note (Boliváres Soberanos).
This set came at first with a 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 - note. In march of the same year, a 200 BsS-note, and in May a 500 BsS-note were added.

In 2019, they skipped a possible 1000, 2000 and 5000 BsS-note, and started emitting 10,000; 20,000; 50,000 BsS.
By 2020, they skipped a possible 100,000-note, and went straight away to 200MIL (200,000), 500MIL (500,000) and 1 Million (1,000,000).
 

2018-2020 Boliváres Soberanos

One year later, the Boliváres Soberanos were not coping with the inflation anymore, so another devaluation took place, now emitting 6 zero's on the notes.
The note representing 1 million BsS became 1 BsD (Bolívares Digitales) - or 10,000,000,000 BsF if you like.

The note was not reprinted, in the new currency, but the 1 of 1 Millión, was good enough to recognize it as a new '1' -note. Followed by 5, 10 and 20 in the new BsD-currency.

2021 Boliváres Digitales

 

On April 29, 2021, the set was completed with a new 50 and 100 Bolívares Digitales note.

50 and 100 Bolívares Digitales

 

Reverse - 200th anniversary of the battle of Carabobo

Evolution of the Bolívares-banknotes:

evolution of the Bolívares notes

Odd stamps : 06 p Stamps on cotton / silk

Once again, a new smooth stamp/sheetlet from Thailand.
Depicting two pets, a dog with a cat on his back, and printed on velvet paper.
Touching the stamp/sheetlet, it feels like petting the animals for real.

This sheetlet of 25 baht, is only issued on 300,000 copies. A rather small number for a country with almost 70 million people (2024).
It was issued on February 2024 to commemorate the 'Love your pet - day'.
The stamp was printed on velvet paper, to promote philately.

In the bottom corner of the sheetlet, we see a qr-code which leads to the website of the Thai post.
For those who don't speak phasa Thai (Thai), the site is also available in phasa Ankrit (English):

Thailandpost.co.th

to be continued....