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100 Soles de Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1933-1939 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | LIMA, 31 DE MARZO DE 1933. EL BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERÚ PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR 100 CIEN SOLES DE ORO DE ACUERDO CON LA LEY nº 7137 (Translation: Lima, March 31st, 1933. The Central Reserve Bank of Peru will pay to the bearer One Hundred Soles de Oro in accordance with Law No. 7137) |
| Reverse description | Printed in orange. The central vignette presents a steam locomotive in motion, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The issuer's name appears across the top, with the face value expressed in numerals on either side of the central vignette and in full lettering below. |
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The Banco Central de Reserva del Perú was itself a new institution when this series entered circulation — established in 1931 as part of the Kemmerer Mission reforms, which swept through several South American central banks in the late 1920s and early 1930s, replacing older commercial hybrid institutions with orthodox reserve banks on the U.S. Federal Reserve model. This note belongs to the BCR's first years of independent issue.
ABNC produced the intaglio work in New York under contract, a relationship Perú maintained with the company across multiple series. The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature — no serial number fluorescence, no security thread, consistent with production norms for the period.