VENEZUELA 5 bolivares 10.5.1966 ERROR
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VENEZUELA, 5 bolivares, 10.5.1966, Face: 400th anniversary founding of Caracas, Back: map, prefix C, P49, 5mm vertically off center both sides, VF
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Description
Off center banknote errors are almost always vertical offsets. They are rare. Even rarer are both sides offset, like this one.
Aside from China, other governments started using circulating “banknotes” starting in the 17th century AD. The practice became general in the 19th century. In the 20th century value of paper money in circulation far surpassed the value of coinage. In the 21st century paper money is fading and credit transactions are growing.
Paper money, meaning the promise of a government to pay a set amount, and the paper promise allowed to circulate at will, was probably first used in China in the 12th century AD. At that time the merchants and governments of Europe were just writing letters to each other about what they owed.
