Catalog
100 Nuevos Soles
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Printer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú (BCRP) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERÚ CIEN NUEVOS SOLES 100 25 DE ABRIL DE 1996 PRESIDENTE DIRECTOR GERENTE GENERAL JORGE BASADRE GROHMANN |
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| Protection type | Security thread, Watermark |
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The "nuevo sol" was introduced in 1991 specifically to sever psychological ties to the inti, which had collapsed under one of the worst hyperinflationary episodes in Latin American history — at its peak in 1990, Peru's annual inflation rate exceeded 7,000 percent. The new currency was pegged to strict monetary targets under the Fujimori government's stabilization program, and the decision to print domestically at the BCRP's own facilities in Lima was itself a political statement about institutional self-sufficiency.
BCRP-printed notes from this period are occasionally found with minor ink inconsistencies on the serial number blocks, a known characteristic of in-house production runs from the mid-1990s.