Catalog
5 Soles de Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1969-1974 |
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| Currency | Sol (1863-1985) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERÚ FORTALEZA DE SACSAHUAMAN CINCO SOLES DE ORO (Translation: Central Reserve Bank of Peru Sacsahuaman Fortress Five Soles de Oro) |
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| Variants | P#99a - 20.06.1969 P#99b - 16.10.1970 P#99c - 24.05.1973 |
| Comments |
The P#99 series ran across an unusually long window for a low-denomination note, surviving intact through Peru's 1969 military coup and the early years of Velasco Alvarado's revolutionary government — a period when the Banco Central was actively redesigning higher-denomination notes to strip colonial and oligarchic imagery. The 5 Soles de Oro was left largely untouched, a sign of how little political weight the government attached to small-change paper.
Thomas De La Rue's Lima-destined output during this period is sometimes confused with notes printed under earlier contracts. The P#99 is a De La Rue London commission throughout its run, with no known locally overprinted variants.