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100 Soles de Oro Casa de Moneda
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1965 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Alonso de Rincon Reverse: Armando Pareja |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | CUATRICENTENARIO DE LA FUNDACION DE LA CASA DE MONEDA LIMA 1565 - 1965 P PLVS VLTRA 8 |
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Peru's 100 Soles de Oro gold piece was struck at the Lima mint — the Casa de Moneda de Lima, one of the oldest operating mints in the Western Hemisphere, having produced coinage continuously since 1565. By 1965, the Soles de Oro had been Peru's monetary unit for nearly four decades, but chronic inflation was already eroding its purchasing power in ways that would accelerate dramatically through the 1970s and eventually force a complete currency replacement with the Inti in 1985.
At just over 46 grams of .900 gold, this was a substantial bullion-adjacent denomination rarely seen in everyday commerce.