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50 Nuevos Soles
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Currency | Nuevo Sol (1991-date) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Abraham Valdelomar Pinto at right in intaglio, set against a warm red-brown guilloché underprint with a vignette of a colonial-era building at center-left; the Peruvian national arms appear at upper right. Three facsimile signatures with their respective titles (Presidente, Director, Gerente General) are printed across the lower center, with the date '6 DE AGOSTO DE 1998' in red at lower left. The numeral '50' appears at lower left and upper right corners, with an EURion security rosette printed at center-left. |
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| Reverse description | A detailed intaglio vignette occupies the center, rendering a panoramic aerial view of the Laguna de Huacachina oasis surrounded by palm trees and desert dunes, with the inscription 'LAGUNA DE HUACACHINA' at lower left of the vignette. A guilloché rosette appears at right, and fine lathe-work patterns border the composition. The denomination '50' is printed in large numerals at upper left and lower right. |
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Peru's transition from the inti to the nuevo sol in 1991 was one of the more dramatic monetary resets in Latin American history — the inti had lost so much value that one nuevo sol was set equal to one million intis. This 1998 issue belongs to the stabilization period that followed, when the BCRP was printing domestically after years of relying on foreign security printers.
The in-house printing operation is worth noting. Few central banks in the region ran their own security presses at this scale, and the BCRP's facility represented a significant institutional investment in monetary self-sufficiency during the post-hyperinflation recovery.