5 Soles de Oro

Peru's 1969 coinage was produced under the military government of General Juan Velasco Alvarado, who had seized power in a coup just the previous October. Velasco's regime moved quickly to reshape national economic institutions, and the Banco Central de Reserva operated under considerable political pressure throughout this period.

The copper-nickel 5 Soles de Oro type ran from 1969 through 1975, after which rampant inflation rendered small-denomination coins effectively worthless in daily commerce. By the early 1980s, the entire Sol de Oro system was abandoned in favor of the Inti.