Catalog
100 Soles de Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Peru |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green, brown and multicolour note dated 22.7.1976, with the national arms vignette at left and a portrait of Tupac Amaru II at right. Denomination numerals appear in the corners against a guilloche underprint, with the issuing bank title across the upper portion. |
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| Reverse description | Panoramic intaglio vignette of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu rendered in brown and grey tones, occupying the central field with Huayna Picchu peak rising behind the terraced ruins at right. A wavy guilloche band runs across the upper margin, with the date printed vertically along the left border and denomination numerals flanking the bank title along the lower edge. |
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Peru's relationship with the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato ran for decades, and this note falls within a long series of Peruvian issues printed in Rome. The Sol de Oro itself had been Peru's currency unit since 1931, replacing the Libra Peruana at a time of monetary restructuring following the global depression — by 1976 the denomination was losing ground to inflation that would eventually force the entire currency's replacement with the Inti in 1985.
The watermark is the sole mechanical security measure on this issue, modest even by mid-1970s standards.