Catalog
200 Nuevo Soles
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Isabel Flores de Oliva (Santa Rosa de Lima) at right, with a vignette of the 'Pozo de los Deseos' (Wishing Well) to the left; issuer title arches across the top with face value expressed in numerals and words at left, rotated 90°, and in numerals at lower right. A vertical security thread runs through the centre, with horizontally arranged serial numbers in ascending size at left and a vertical serial number at right; watermark zone at left. A stylised rose appears at upper right, and partial numeral '200' at upper left with see-through registration element aligning to the reverse. |
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| Obverse lettering | 200 BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERÚ 200 NUEVO SOLES 200 SANTA ROSA DE LIMA (Translation: 200 Central Bank of Reserve of Peru 200 Nuevos Soles (=New Suns) 200 Saint Rose of Lima) |
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The 200 Nuevo Soles denomination sat at the top of Peru's circulating series for most of its lifespan — the 200 was introduced in the late 1990s when inflation had sufficiently subsided that a note of that value was practical rather than absurd, a direct consequence of the monetary stabilization achieved after the catastrophic hyperinflation of the late 1980s under the Inti. Crane Currency, based in Dalton, Massachusetts, has handled Peruvian printing contracts across multiple series.
The Nuevo Sol itself was introduced in 1991 at a rate of one billion Intis, one of the starkest redenomination ratios in Latin American history.