200 Soles de Oro

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.