Definition of "bolívar"

He can compute his earnings for a week at so many bolívares a day, and he knows the costs of various construction materials and with some effort can make a simple summation of costs of materials for a job.

1968, Lisa Redfield Peattie, “The World of Señor Figueres”, in The View from the Barrio, Ann Arbor, Mich.: The University of Michigan Press, page 96

In 1921, for example, a large chicken could be obtained for four bolívares, whereas now one cost ten bolívares. Likewise, oranges that had previously sold for two bolívares per hundred were now one bolívar for four.

2009, Miguel Tinker Salas, “The Search for Black Gold”, in The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, page 68

In theory, it would be entirely possible to offer these low prices, especially given that the canteen does not pay for local land rents, or tenancy, or electricity, or water; that it employs inmates who are paid a pittance (two bolívares for the entire day); […]

2023, Rebecca Jarman, Representing the Barrios: Culture, Politics, and Urban Poverty in Twentieth-Century Caracas‎, Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press