Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Nuevo Sol Encounter of two Worlds, horizontal
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
|---|---|
| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | 24.98 g |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PÉRU 1991 - UN NUEVO SOL PLATA .925 |
| Reverse description | The central field presents two supine, horizontally oriented conjoined heads rendered in a stylized allegorical composition symbolizing the encounter of the Old and New Worlds. One figure holds aloft a Latin cross while the other grasps a cornstalk, representing the cultural and agricultural exchange of 1492. The engraver's facsimile signature Pareja appears in the lower central field. The upper legend ENCUENTRO DE DOS MUNDOS arcs across the border, flanked by a decorative beaded rim, while the commemorative dates 1492 · 1992 are inscribed across the lower field. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Issued to mark the 500th anniversary of Columbus's 1492 arrival in the Americas, this coin belongs to the broad wave of commemorative programs coordinated across Ibero-American nations in the early 1990s. Peru's participation reflected its place in a shared colonial history — the Viceroyalty of Peru had been the administrative and economic heart of Spanish South America for over two centuries.
The "horizontal" designation distinguishes this from a companion vertical-orientation issue, both struck in the same year under the same KM series.