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200 Soles de Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Currency | Sol (1863-1985) |
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| Reverse lettering | 200 BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERÚ 200 FRAGATA AMAZONAS 200 200 DOSCIENTOS SOLES DE ORO (turned 90º, on left) LIMA, 23 DE FEBRERO DE 1968 (Translation: 200 Central Reserve Bank of Peru 200 Frigate Amazonas 200 200 Two hundred Soles de Oro (Golden Suns) (turned 90º, on left) Lima, February 23rd, 1968) |
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The 200 Soles de Oro denomination was introduced at a moment of acute fiscal pressure — by the late 1960s, Peru's money supply had expanded rapidly under successive governments, and the Banco Central was issuing higher-denomination notes to keep pace with accelerating inflation rather than as routine additions to the series. Thomas De La Rue's London plant handled the printing, as it had for much of Peru's twentieth-century paper currency.
P#96 is among the shorter-lived issues in the series; the military government that took power in October 1968 under General Velasco Alvarado moved quickly to revise the currency's political imagery.