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1 Nuevo Sol Central Reserve Bank of Peru
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse description | At center, the bold numeral '75' is superimposed upon a radiant sunburst of fine engraved rays, flanked symmetrically by two large laurel branches extending from the lower field. The denomination UN NUEVO SOL is inscribed in two lines curving along the upper periphery, left and right of the central device. Below the sunburst, the legend ANIVERSARIO and the issuer abbreviation BCRP appear in two lines, with the commemorative date span 1922-1997 flanked by two raised dots inscribed along the lower border, marking the 75th anniversary of the Banco Central de Reserva del Perú. The proof finish produces a sharp contrast between the mirror fields and the frosted high-relief design elements. |
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| Reverse lettering | UN NUEVO SOL ANIVERSARIO BCRP 1922-1997 |
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Peru's 1 Nuevo Sol silver issues of this period were part of a broader numismatic program launched after the country's catastrophic hyperinflationary collapse of the late 1980s, when the old sol had become so worthless that the government introduced the inti as a stopgap — which itself failed — before the nuevo sol finally took hold in 1991 under Fujimori's economic stabilization program. The BCRP's commemorative silver strikes were, in part, a deliberate exercise in institutional credibility-building for a currency that was barely six years old.
KM#336 is a proof or collector issue rather than a circulation piece, produced in .925 silver at a weight inconsistent with any everyday transaction coin.