Catalog
100.000 Soles de Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la Nación / to the order of: Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE LA NACIÓN CHEQUE CIRCULAR DE GERENCIA D.S. N° 390-85-EP SERIE T3 0202638 S/.100,000.00 16 DE SETIEMBRE DE 1985 PAGARA A LA ORDEN DEL BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERU LA CANTIDAD DE CIEN MIL SOLES DE ORO ** GERENTE GENERAL FUNCIONARIO AUTORIZADO |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on plain white paper and carries three lines of bold letterpress text at the top: PAGUESE AL PORTADOR, followed by Banco Central de Reserva del Perú, and Lima, 2 de Setiembre de 1985. Three manuscript signatures appear below, each identified by a printed title line reading DIRECTOR, PRESIDENTE, and GERENTE GENERAL respectively; the remainder of the surface is blank. |
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By 1985, Peru's inflation was accelerating toward the crisis that would eventually force a full currency replacement with the Inti in 1986. This 100,000 Soles de Oro note was among the highest-denomination paper issued before that switch — a denomination that would have been unthinkable a decade earlier. The Soles de Oro had been Peru's currency since 1931, and its collapse into six-figure denominations within a single generation reflects one of Latin America's sharper postwar monetary deteriorations.
The dual-authority structure — issued by Banco de la Nación but drawn to the order of Banco Central de Reserva — was a functional arrangement used across the late Soles series, not an anomaly specific to this note.