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1 Nuevo Sol José Carlos Mariátegui

Issuer Banco Central de Reserva del Perú
Year 1994
Type Non-circulating coin
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Obverse script Latin
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José Carlos Mariátegui died in 1930 at thirty-five, leaving behind the foundational text of Latin American Marxism — Siete ensayos de interpretación de la realidad peruana — and a political party, the PSP, that would fracture almost immediately after his death. Commemorating him on official Peruvian coinage required a degree of ideological flexibility from the Banco Central that would have struck his contemporaries as remarkable.

This issue is part of Peru's broader 1990s commemorative silver program honoring national intellectuals, struck during the Fujimori administration — a government whose relationship with the Peruvian left was adversarial at best.

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