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20 Nuevos Soles
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Nuevo sol (1991-2015) / Sol (2016-date) |
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| Obverse description | Watermark area to the left, with a central vignette of the historic courtyard of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Portrait of scholar and diplomat Raúl Porras Barrenechea to the right, rendered in intaglio. Denomination and issuing authority inscriptions are printed in letterpress against a multicolour guilloche underprint. |
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| Protection description | Watermark portrait of Raúl Porras Barrenechea visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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The P#173 series was issued as Peru transitioned out of the economic stabilization period that had defined the 1990s — the "nuevo sol" itself was introduced in 1991 specifically to replace the inti after hyperinflation had rendered that currency practically worthless. BA International, the Montreal-based successor to the venerable British American Bank Note Company, printed this series during what turned out to be the company's final decades of operation before its 2012 closure.
Security on this issue is relatively modest by the standards of its era — watermark and thread only, without the optical variable devices that were becoming common in regional issues at the time.