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10 Soles de Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Peru |
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| Year | 1962-1968 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The Peruvian national arms, rendered in intaglio, occupies a central circular vignette surrounded by an ornate guilloche frame; the shield quarters a vicuna, a cinchona tree, and a cornucopia, encircled by a laurel and palm wreath with a civic crown above. Large denomination numerals 10 appear in guilloche rosettes at left and right within a red geometric lathe-work border, with the bank title across the top and the denomination legend in a cartouche at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERU DIEZ SOLES DE ORO THOMAS DE LA RUE & CO. LTD. |
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The P#84 series runs across an unusually long window for a single design — six years during which Peru's economy was under mounting inflationary pressure, and the sol de oro was steadily losing purchasing power. By the late 1960s, denominations that had once represented meaningful transactions were becoming routine pocket change, which partly explains why notes from the later dates in this series show heavy circulation wear far more often than early dates.
Thomas De La Rue's engraved intaglio work on this series is among the finer examples of their South American commissions from the period.