Catalog
1000 Soles de Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Peru |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Printer | Bundesdruckerei, Berlin, Germany |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERU 1000 MIL SOLES DE ORO Bundesdruckerei |
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| Protection description | the Peruvian national arms visible in the paper. |
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Peru's 1000 Soles de Oro denomination was entering increasingly uncomfortable territory by 1976 — inflation was accelerating under the Velasco and then Morales Bermúdez military governments, and what had once been a high-denomination note was losing that status with uncomfortable speed. Within a few years the entire Sol de Oro system would be replaced by the Inti, making notes of this period transitional in an unplanned sense.
Bundesdruckerei's involvement reflects a pattern of Latin American central banks contracting German security printers during this period, when domestic printing infrastructure couldn't meet demand or security standards. The watermark-only security specification is notably lean for a four-figure denomination.