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20 Nuevos Soles
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1994-1995 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Raúl Porras Barrenechea to the right, with a vignette of a colonial-style building framed by palm trees at centre-left. The Peruvian national arms appear in red at upper right, with the denomination numeral '20' in red at lower left. Three facsimile signatures of bank officials appear below the central vignette, with the date of issue printed at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERÚ PALACIO DE TORRE TAGLE VEINTE NUEVOS SOLES (Translation: Central Reserve Bank of Peru / Palace of Torre Tagle / Twenty Nuevos Soles) |
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Pick 158 was printed by two separate contractors — De La Rue in London and Giesecke & Devrient in Leipzig — which means notes from this series can show subtle differences in ink saturation and registration depending on the source press, though neither printer's output is cataloged separately under this reference. The dual-contractor arrangement was not unusual for the BCR during the 1990s, as Peru was rebuilding its currency credibility after the hyperinflationary collapse of the Inti, which at its worst in 1990 had rendered denominations meaningless within weeks of issue.
The Nuevo Sol itself was introduced in 1991 at a conversion rate of one million Intis.