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5 Centavos
| Issuer | Peru |
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| Year | 1945-1965 |
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| Value | 5 Centavos (0.05 PEH) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Peru shifted this denomination to brass during World War II as silver and cupronickel supplies were redirected or constrained by wartime materials demands across Latin America — a pattern seen in a dozen countries simultaneously. The 1945 introduction coincided with Peru's late entry into the war on the Allied side, a largely symbolic declaration made in February of that year to secure postwar international standing.
The type ran twenty years without design change, a period that saw Peru's sol eroded by persistent inflation throughout the 1950s.