5 Soles de Oro

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.