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50 Soles de Oro Battle of Callao
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Peru |
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| Year | 1966 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse lettering | COMBATE DEL 2 DE MAYO 1866 1966 |
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| Mintage | 1966 - - 6,409 |
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The Battle of Callao on May 2, 1866 was the last significant naval engagement between Spain and its former South American colonies — Spain's final serious attempt to reassert influence on the Pacific coast. A joint Peruvian-Chilean squadron repelled the Spanish fleet under Casto Méndez Núñez, who was wounded during the action. Peru struck this centennial commemorative exactly one hundred years after that engagement.
KM#250 had a mintage of just 10,000 pieces, struck at the Lima mint.