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200 Nuevos Soles
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 2009 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Isabel Flores de Oliva (Santa Rosa de Lima) at right, with a vignette of the 'Pozo de Agua' (Desire Well) to the left, set against a guilloche underprint. The issuer name appears across the top, with the face value rendered in both numerals and text at lower left — rotated 90° — and at lower right; a vertical security thread is visible at centre, with dual serial numbers printed in black, one horizontal with increasing character size at left and one vertical at right. A stylized rose vignette appears at upper right, with partial numeral '200' at upper left in exact front-to-back register, and a watermark window is reserved at left. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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The 200 Nuevos Soles denomination occupied an awkward position in everyday Peruvian commerce — too large for routine transactions in a cash economy where the 10 and 20 Sol notes carried most of the burden, yet not the ceiling note. The series to which this belongs was printed entirely by the Casa de Moneda in Lima, part of a sustained push from the mid-1990s onward to reduce Peru's dependence on foreign security printers after years of contracting abroad.
Security provision on this issue is relatively modest by regional standards — watermark and thread only, without the optical variable ink or color-shifting elements adopted in later Peruvian redesigns.