1 Nuevo Sol Environmental Protection

Issued as part of Peru's broader commemorative program of the early 1990s, this piece belongs to a series tied to environmental awareness campaigns that coincided with heightened international pressure on Amazonian nations following the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. Peru's central bank produced several silver issues across this period targeting collector markets abroad, particularly in Europe and North America, as a source of hard currency income — the coins were never intended for domestic circulation.

KM#317 is sometimes conflated with adjacent issues in the series; verify the specific reverse type against the KM plate before cataloging.