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10 000 Soles de Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Peru |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Value | 10 000 Soles (10 000 PEH) |
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| Obverse description | Black, blue-violet, and purple intaglio printing on multicolor underprint, with a vignette portrait of Garcilaso Inca de la Vega at right and the national arms at center. The issuer title runs along the top margin, while the watermark panel occupies the left portion of the note; red serial numbers with letter prefix and suffix appear in the watermark area. Denomination is expressed in numerals at lower left and lower right corners and in words below the arms, with the red issue date printed beneath the watermark. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERU DIEZ MIL SOLES DE ORO (Translation: Central Reserve Bank of Peru Ten thousand Soles de Oro) |
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By 1981, Peru's inflation was accelerating sharply — the 10,000 Soles de Oro denomination, unthinkable a decade earlier, had become a practical necessity rather than a prestige issue. The sol had been deteriorating since the mid-1970s under the weight of military government borrowing and collapsing export revenues, and the Banco Central was effectively chasing price levels with new high-denomination printings.
ABNC retained the contract for Peruvian notes through this period, as they had since the mid-twentieth century. The series would be superseded within a few years when the Inti replaced the sol entirely in 1985, at a conversion rate of 1,000 soles to one inti — making this note worth exactly ten intis on the day of the changeover.