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1 Nuevo Sol José Carlos Mariátegui
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The national coat of arms of Peru occupies the center of the mirror-polished field, depicting a divided shield bearing a vicuña in the upper left quarter, a cinchona tree in the upper right, and a cornucopia in the lower half, all surmounted by a civic wreath. The legend BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERÚ arcs along the upper periphery. Below the arms, the denomination UN NUEVO SOL is prominently displayed, with the word NUEVO in smaller lettering between UN and SOL. The date 1994 appears in the lower field, flanked by the weight notation 33.625g to the left and the fineness PLATA 0.925 to the right. A decorative serrated border frames the entire design. |
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José Carlos Mariátegui died in 1930 at thirty-five, leaving behind the foundational text of Latin American Marxism — Siete ensayos de interpretación de la realidad peruana — and a political party, the PSP, that would fracture almost immediately after his death. Commemorating him on official Peruvian coinage required a degree of ideological flexibility from the Banco Central that would have struck his contemporaries as remarkable.
This issue is part of Peru's broader 1990s commemorative silver program honoring national intellectuals, struck during the Fujimori administration — a government whose relationship with the Peruvian left was adversarial at best.