5 Soles de Oro

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.