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20 Nuevos Soles César A. Vallejo
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 20 Soles |
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| Obverse description | The Peruvian national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a quartered shield with a vicuña, a cinchona tree, and a cornucopia, surmounted by a laurel wreath. The circular legend BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERU arcs around the upper periphery, while the mint mark M and the fineness notation PLATA 0,925 appear in the field to the left and right of the arms respectively. The denomination VEINTE NUEVOS SOLES is inscribed in three lines below the arms, followed by the year 1992 and the weight 33.625g in the lower field. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERU M PLATA 0,925 VEINTE NUEVOS SOLES 1992 33.625g |
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Issued the year Peru was tearing itself apart — Sendero Luminoso was at peak operational strength, Fujimori had just dissolved Congress in his April 1992 autogolpe, and the economy had only recently begun recovering from hyperinflation that had topped 7,000% annually under García. Commemorating César Vallejo, the modernist poet from Santiago de Chuco whose 1938 collection España, aparta de mí este cáliz emerged from his time fighting alongside Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, was an odd cultural assertion under those circumstances.
Vallejo died in Paris, stateless and impoverished. Peru claimed him in death far more generously than in life.