Catalogus
Volledige afbeeldingen bekijken — gratis registratie
Doorgaan met Google — het is gratis
of registreer met e-mail
500 000 Intis segmented foil security thread
| Uitgever | Banco Central de Reserva del Peru |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1988 |
| Type | Log in om details te zien |
| Waarde | 500 000 Intis (500 000 PEI) |
| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Predominantly blue and orange intaglio print on a multicolour guilloche underprint. Portrait vignette of writer Ricardo Palma at right, rendered in fine line engraving; the Peruvian national arms at centre, flanked by ornate guilloche panels and a vertical segmented foil security thread at left. Three facsimile signatures appear below the arms, with the titles DIRECTOR, PRESIDENTE, and GERENTE GENERAL. |
|---|---|
| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Handtekening(en) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beveiligingstype | Watermark, Security thread |
| Beschrijving beveiliging | Log in om details te zien |
| Varianten | Log in om details te zien |
| Opmerkingen |
Peru's inflation crisis of the late 1980s was among the worst in Latin American history — by 1990, the cumulative rate had exceeded two million percent. The 500,000 Intis denomination is a direct artifact of that collapse; the Inti itself had replaced the Sol in 1985 at 1,000-to-1, and was in turn replaced by the Nuevo Sol in 1991 at another 1,000,000-to-1. A note worth half a million of a currency already born from devaluation tells the arithmetic of the crisis plainly enough.
The segmented foil security thread — rather than the simpler embedded continuous thread used on earlier Inti issues — reflects De La Rue's mid-to-late 1980s push to upgrade anti-counterfeiting specification on high-denomination emergency printings for hyperinflationary markets.