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10 Nuevos Soles

Issuer Banco Central de Reserva del Perú
Year 1996
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Printer Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Rome, Italy (1928-date)
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Obverse description At centre, a vignette of the aircraft monument dedicated to José Abelardo Quiñones Gonzáles is set against a multicolour guilloche underprint, with a portrait bust of the aviator hero positioned to the right and the Peruvian coat of arms at upper right. The issuer's name runs along the top, face value numerals appear at lower left and at upper right rotated 90°, and the denomination in words is inscribed along the lower edge. A watermark window occupies the left margin.
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Peru's switch to the nuevo sol in 1991 was itself a redenomination response to the catastrophic hyperinflation of the late 1980s, when the inti had collapsed so thoroughly that a 1,000,000-intis note had entered circulation. The 10 nuevos soles denomination sat at a useful middle register during the mid-1990s stabilization years under Fujimori's economic reforms, when annual inflation had finally been brought below 20 percent after peaking near 7,500 percent in 1990.

The Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, the Italian state printing house better known for producing euro coins and Italian postage, has held Peruvian banknote contracts across multiple series. Watermark security on this issue is relatively modest by the standards of later BCR emissions.

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