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1 Nuevo Sol Sacred City of Caral
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Currency | Nuevo sol (1991-2015) / Sol (2016-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | CIUDAD SAGRADA DE CARAL S. XXX - XIX a.C. 1 NUEVO SOL |
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Caral, located in the Supe Valley north of Lima, is among the oldest urban settlements in the Americas — radiocarbon dating places its construction at roughly 2600 BCE, contemporaneous with the Old Kingdom of Egypt. The site was only formally recognized by Peruvian authorities in 2009, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site largely through the sustained fieldwork of archaeologist Ruth Shady Solís, whose excavations beginning in the 1990s overturned long-held assumptions about the geographic origins of complex civilization in the Western Hemisphere.
This coin is part of the BCR's ongoing "Riqueza y Orgullo del Perú" circulation commemorative series.