Venezuela

Currency often features a nation's past heroes, whose portraits become the face of despair during monetary devaluation and the resulting poverty and suffering. In this case, Antonio José de Sucre was a revolutionary figure helpinig Venezuela to free itself from colonial domination. But that hope was wasted on future generations.

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In 2018, (the year this note was printed), the rates of inflation became so accelerated under President Nicolas Maduro, the government stopped providing statistics, with estimates ranging from 33,000% to as high as 1,000,000% by the IMF. Interestingly, de Sucre was a contemporary of George Washington, the face of the US dollar.