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5 Soles

Issuer Banco Nacional del Perú
Year 1877
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Composition Cotton paper
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Obverse description The obverse is printed in black on an orange-pink underprint, with the bank title EL BANCO NACIONAL DEL PERÚ arched across the top margin. A central vignette shows a Peruvian peasant on a donkey, flanked by the serial number 46093 on both sides. To the upper left, a cherub vignette appears beside a guilloche numeral 5, while to the right a portrait of a young woman is set within an oval frame. The denomination CINCO SOLES is boldly lettered in the lower central area, with manuscript text indicating Lima as the place of issue.
Obverse lettering EL BANCO NACIONAL DEL PERÚ
CINCO
SOLES
Lima
Pagará
a la vista
al portador
en moneda corriente
CINCO
Reverse description The reverse is printed in dark teal-green with an intricate guilloche border of repeated rosettes and geometric lathe-work framing the entire note. The central vignette, set within an oval guilloche frame, depicts two allegorical female figures with a harp, accompanied by a smaller cherubic figure, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. Large numeral 5 counters appear in oval guilloche panels at left and right, with the word CINCO inscribed above and below the central vignette. The printer's imprint American Bank Note Co. New York appears in small lettering beneath the central vignette.
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