500 Soles de Oro

This series runs across a politically turbulent stretch: General Juan Velasco Alvarado's military government, which had seized power in October 1968, was nationalizing foreign assets and restructuring the economy throughout the period these notes circulated. Thomas De La Rue continued printing Peruvian currency from London despite the nationalist tenor of the regime — a pragmatic arrangement that outlasted the ideological friction.

Francisco Miró Quesada's signature appears on both date variants, bridging the two administrations. His continuity across the 1969 and 1974 issues is a small but concrete marker of institutional persistence inside an otherwise volatile period.