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25 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1973-1975 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERU 1974 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Peru's early 1970s coinage was shaped directly by the Velasco Alvarado military government, which had seized power in 1968 and pursued aggressive nationalization of foreign industries, including the expropriation of IPC's oil operations. The brass small-denomination coins of this period reflect a government simultaneously flush with nationalization optimism and increasingly strained by foreign debt and import costs.
KM#259 replaced the earlier silver-clad issues as part of a broader shift toward cheaper base-metal alloys across the sol series — a quiet acknowledgment that the monetary pressures building through the early 1970s were not temporary.