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100 Nuevos Soles
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Currency | Nuevo Sol (1991-date) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Jorge Basadre Grohmann at right in intaglio, with a vignette of the Plaza Mayor de Tacna and its archway monument at centre-left against a multicolour guilloche underprint in light blue and green tones. The Peruvian national seal appears at upper right, and the denomination numeral '100' is printed in red at lower left and right. Three facsimile signatures appear across the lower centre, identified by the titles PRESIDENTE, DIRECTOR, and GERENTE GENERAL. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú (National Library of Peru), rendered in detailed intaglio linework in blue and dark tones against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The denomination legend 'CIEN NUEVOS SOLES' appears in red below the building, with the numeral '100' at lower right. A security rosette element occupies the right portion of the note. |
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The "nuevo sol" was introduced in 1991 specifically to sever psychological ties to the inti, which had collapsed under one of the worst hyperinflationary episodes in Latin American history — at its peak in 1990, Peru's annual inflation rate exceeded 7,000 percent. The new currency was pegged to strict monetary targets under the Fujimori government's stabilization program, and the decision to print domestically at the BCRP's own facilities in Lima was itself a political statement about institutional self-sufficiency.
BCRP-printed notes from this period are occasionally found with minor ink inconsistencies on the serial number blocks, a known characteristic of in-house production runs from the mid-1990s.