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100 Soles de Oro Law# 10535; black reverse
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1956-1961 |
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| Value | 100 Soles (100 PEH) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERÚ PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR 100 100 LIBER TAD CIEN SOLES DE ORO DE ACUERDO CON LA LEY Nº 10535 LIMA 13 de Mayo de 1959 (Translation: Central Reserve Bank of Perú Will pay to the bearer 100 100 Liber- ty One hundred Soles de Oro ("Golden Suns") Accordingly with Law # 10535 Lima May 13th, 1959) |
| Reverse description | The Peruvian national coat of arms is centrally positioned within a circular frame, printed entirely in black intaglio. The issuer's name is inscribed along the upper border, with the face value in numerals flanking the arms at left and right, and the full denomination in text along the lower margin. |
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Law 10535, passed in 1950, consolidated Peruvian currency under the Banco Central de Reserva and authorized this series. The black reverse was a deliberate security measure — an alternative color scheme introduced partway through the series run to complicate counterfeiting, which had become a documented problem with the earlier printings. De La Rue's London plant handled the full production, as it had for Peruvian issues going back decades, giving Lima's central bank a reliable but expensive offshore dependency for its highest-denomination circulation notes.
The black-reverse variant is cataloged separately from the earlier issues precisely because the color change was not cosmetic.