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50 000 Soles de Oro Alfonso Ugarte
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Peru |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#277 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERU CINCUENTA MIL SOLES DE ORO 1/2 ONZA TROY ORO 0.9166 Tranche |
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Alfonso Ugarte was the Peruvian military officer who, according to national legend, wrapped himself in the Peruvian flag and rode his horse off a cliff at Arica rather than surrender to Chilean forces during the War of the Pacific in 1880. The battle was a catastrophic defeat; Arica fell, and Peru lost its southernmost territory. Ugarte became a martyr figure almost immediately.
This gold issue was part of a broader commemorative program authorized in the late 1970s under the military government of Francisco Morales Bermúdez, drawing on the centennial of that war.