On 1 January 2008 Venezuela switched to the «strong» bolívar (bolívar fuerte), exchanging one new unit for a thousand old ones. The banknote series for it is already dated 2007, and each of its denominations pairs a figure from the country’s history on the front with an animal of Venezuelan nature on the back.

The front of the 10 bolívares shows the cacique Guaicaipuro, a chief of the indigenous peoples; his portrait is repeated in the watermark. The back shows a harpy eagle against the Ucaima Falls and the Venado and Kurún tepuis, the flat-topped table mountains.

This example is variety P90d, dated 29 October 2013 on the note. The design stayed unchanged until 2014–2015: from one printing to the next only the date on the note and the serial prefixes changed. The «strong» bolívar lasted ten years: on 20 August 2018 it was replaced by the «sovereign» bolívar at 100,000 to 1.

The portrait of an indigenous chief and the harpy eagle over the tepuis make this ten one of the most distinctly Venezuelan notes of the series, a strong piece for sets on indigenous peoples and birds of prey. UNC condition means the note has never circulated: no folds, no wear, no soiling, even corners — just as it left the press.

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