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5000 Soles de Oro
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Peru |
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| Year | 1976-1985 |
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| Currency | Sol (1863-1985) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERU CINCO MIL SOLES DE ORO 5000 Bundesdruckerei |
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| Variants | P#117a - 22.07.1976 P#117b - 05.11.1981 P#117c - 21.06.1985 |
| Comments |
The Bundesdruckerei contract for this series was part of a broader Peruvian strategy in the mid-1970s to source high-security printing abroad while domestic infrastructure remained inadequate for the volumes required. Berlin was printing for several Latin American central banks during this period, and Peru was one of the more consistent clients.
The 5000 Soles de Oro denomination arrived as inflation was already making it feel inadequate — by the early 1980s, Peru's annual inflation rate was climbing toward triple digits, and denominations that seemed substantial at issue were routine pocket change within a few years. The series was eventually swept away by the 1985 Inti reform, which replaced the Sol at 1000:1.