Catalog
5 Soles de Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Value | 5 Soles (5 PEH) |
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| Reverse description | Executed entirely in olive-green intaglio, the reverse is dominated by a panoramic landscape vignette of the Inca fortress of Sacsayhuamán near Cuzco, its massive hewn-stone terraces and walls extending across the full width of the note. 'BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERÚ' runs along the upper border and 'CINCO SOLES DE ORO' appears in bold lettering along the lower margin. The caption 'FORTALEZA DE SACSAHUAMÁN' is inscribed in small text at the lower right of the central vignette, with the printer's imprint below. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERÚ CINCO SOLES DE ORO FORTALEZA DE SACSAHUAMÁN THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY LIMITED |
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Peru's Soles de Oro denominations were printed by De La Rue throughout much of the mid-twentieth century under long-running contracts that also covered several other South American central banks simultaneously. By 1968, the sol was already under inflationary pressure that would accelerate dramatically through the 1970s — this denomination, worth a fraction of a US cent by the time the Inti replaced the sol in 1985, was effectively rendered obsolete by economic forces rather than deliberate withdrawal.
P#92 sits in the middle of a run that changed relatively little across printings, making precise date attribution reliant on serial number prefixes rather than design differences.