Catalog
1000 Soles de Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1979 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and teal intaglio print over a light guilloche underprint with olive-gold rosette ornaments. The Peruvian national arms occupy the central vignette in olive-gold tones, while an intaglio portrait of Admiral Miguel Grau is positioned in the right field. The denomination "MIL SOLES DE ORO" appears in bold letterpress below the arms, the issue date "3 DE MAYO DE 1979" in red at lower left, and three facsimile signatures captioned DIRECTOR, PRESIDENTE, and GERENTE GENERAL run along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERÚ 1000 MIL SOLES DE ORO THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY, LIMITED |
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By 1979, Peru's sol was losing ground fast — inflation had been accelerating since the mid-1970s under the Morales Bermúdez government, and the 1000 Soles de Oro denomination, once a high-value note, was becoming routine tender. The Banco Central would issue increasingly larger denominations in rapid succession before the entire sol currency was retired in 1985, replaced by the Inti at a rate of 1,000 to one.
Thomas De La Rue printed this series from London throughout the late 1970s, a long-standing arrangement for Peruvian currency production. Security relied on watermark alone — no security thread in this issue.