Catalog
200 Nuevos Soles
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Size | 140 × 65 mm |
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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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| Protection description | Watermark portrait of Isabel Flores de Oliva (Santa Rosa de Lima) with electrotype numeral 200; vertical security thread embedded at centre of note. |
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| Comments |
The 200 Nuevos Soles denomination occupied an awkward position in everyday Peruvian commerce — too large for routine transactions in a cash economy where the 10 and 20 Sol notes carried most of the burden, yet not the ceiling note. The series to which this belongs was printed entirely by the Casa de Moneda in Lima, part of a sustained push from the mid-1990s onward to reduce Peru's dependence on foreign security printers after years of contracting abroad.
Security provision on this issue is relatively modest by regional standards — watermark and thread only, without the optical variable ink or color-shifting elements adopted in later Peruvian redesigns.