Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5 Soles de Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
|---|---|
| Year | 1969-1974 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Sacsahuaman Fortress rendered in a detailed engraved style, with the issuer title across the top, face value numerals in all four corners, and the denomination in words along the lower margin. |
| 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) |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| 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.