Catalog
10 Nuevos Soles
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Printer | De La Rue Currency, Gateshead |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in the Cusco region, rendered in green and ochre tones with the mountain peaks of Huayna Picchu rising behind the terraced ruins. Peru's national coat of arms appears at upper right, with a pre-Columbian ceramic vessel vignette at left and the numeral 10 at lower left, the whole bordered by a geometric guilloche band at the base. |
| Reverse lettering | DIEZ NUEVOS SOLES MACHU PICCHU - CUSCO 10 (Translation: TEN NEW SOLES MACHU PICCHU - CUSCO 10) |
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The Nuevo Sol series was introduced in 1991 as Peru replaced the Inti, itself a currency that had lasted only seven years before hyperinflation rendered it worthless — the Inti had depreciated to the point where the conversion rate was one Nuevo Sol to one million Intis. De La Rue's Gateshead facility, formerly T.D.E. and later absorbed into the De La Rue group, handled production of this issue, one of several denominations in the series printed there rather than at the company's Basingstoke plant.