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100 Soles de Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Peru |
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| Year | 1968-1974 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Hipólito Unanue at right, identified by name inscription below; at centre, the Peruvian national coat of arms set within an elaborate multicolour guilloche underprint with radiating sunburst motif; at left, a vignette of indigenous figures in a harvest or labour scene. The date and place of issue appear vertically along the left margin, with two signature lines for Presidente Ejecutivo and Director below the central vignette. |
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| Protection description | a portrait head visible in the paper when held to light |
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Peru's 100 Soles de Oro series ran through a period of considerable political turbulence — General Juan Velasco Alvarado seized power in October 1968, and the military government that followed pursued aggressive nationalization of foreign oil interests and agrarian reform, dramatically reshaping the economy through which these notes circulated. The Banco Central de Reserva continued issuing the series without interruption through the change in government, a mark of institutional continuity even as economic policy lurched sharply leftward.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement places this firmly in the tradition of Peruvian notes printed abroad well into the twentieth century, despite Lima having domestic printing capacity. The single security feature — a watermark — is modest for a high-denomination note of this vintage.