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1000 Soles de Oro

Issuer Banco Central de Reserva del Peru
Year 1981
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Value 1000 Soles (1000 PEH)
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Obverse lettering BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERU
MIL SOLES DE ORO
1000
5 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1981
DIRECTOR
PRESIDENTE
GERENTE GENERAL
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By 1981, Peru's economy was deteriorating rapidly under the weight of accumulated debt and accelerating inflation — the 1000 Soles de Oro, which had been a significant denomination when first introduced in the series, was losing practical value faster than these notes could move through circulation. Within a few years the entire Sol de Oro currency would be replaced by the Inti at a rate of 1,000 to 1, effectively confirming what the street-level exchange rate had already been saying.

ABNC's involvement with Peruvian currency stretched back decades, and the intaglio quality on this series is consistent with their late-period work before the company's decline in the mid-1980s.

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