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50.000 Soles de Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in orange-red and green over a multicoloured guilloche underprint, with a central vignette of an oil drilling platform attended by workers in the foreground, a petroleum derrick rising against dense jungle vegetation, and a helicopter visible in the upper field. The numeral 50000 appears at upper left and upper right, complemented by an ornate green numeral panel at lower center-right. The legend CINCUENTA MIL SOLES DE ORO runs along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERÚ 50000 CINCUENTA MIL SOLES DE ORO |
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By 1985, Peru's sol de oro was in terminal decline. Inflation had been accelerating for years, and the 50,000-sol denomination — unthinkable a decade earlier — was a direct consequence of a monetary system that would be replaced entirely the following year when the inti was introduced at a conversion rate of 1,000 soles de oro to one inti. This note was effectively born obsolete.
Bundesdruckerei's involvement reflects a broader pattern among Latin American central banks sourcing security printing from West Germany during this period, when domestic capacity couldn't keep pace with the volume demands of high-inflation economies.