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200 Soles de Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | At left, a vignette of fishermen aboard a traditional boat; at right, a portrait of Ramón Castilla, with the national coat of arms at centre. The issuer's name arcs across the top, the denomination is expressed in words below the arms, and numeral face values occupy all four corners. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the frigate Amazonas under sail, heading to the right, framed by the issuer's name along the top and the denomination in words below; numeral face values appear in all four corners. The issue date is printed vertically at left, rotated 90 degrees. |
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The 200 Soles de Oro denomination was introduced at a moment of acute fiscal pressure — by the late 1960s, Peru's money supply had expanded rapidly under successive governments, and the Banco Central was issuing higher-denomination notes to keep pace with accelerating inflation rather than as routine additions to the series. Thomas De La Rue's London plant handled the printing, as it had for much of Peru's twentieth-century paper currency.
P#96 is among the shorter-lived issues in the series; the military government that took power in October 1968 under General Velasco Alvarado moved quickly to revise the currency's political imagery.