Andrés Avelino Cáceres earned his place on Peruvian currency through the War of the Pacific (1879–1884), in which Chile seized Lima and occupied much of the country. While the formal government capitulated, Cáceres organized guerrilla resistance in the central highlands — the Breña Campaign — fighting a three-year insurgency with indigenous peasant forces against a professional Chilean army. He became president twice afterward, though his second term ended in a military coup in 1895.
The 1986 issue was part of Peru's short-lived Inti currency, which replaced the sol at 1,000-to-one amid severe inflation — itself soon overtaken by the catastrophic hyperinflation of the late 1980s that would kill the Inti within six years.
Andrés Avelino Cáceres earned his place on Peruvian currency through the War of the Pacific (1879–1884), in which Chile seized Lima and occupied much of the country. While the formal government capitulated, Cáceres organized guerrilla resistance in the central highlands — the Breña Campaign — fighting a three-year insurgency with indigenous peasant forces against a professional Chilean army. He became president twice afterward, though his second term ended in a military coup in 1895.
The 1986 issue was part of Peru's short-lived Inti currency, which replaced the sol at 1,000-to-one amid severe inflation — itself soon overtaken by the catastrophic hyperinflation of the late 1980s that would kill the Inti within six years.