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Peru banknotes
Peru paper money catalog and Peruvian currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Spanish currency, till 1821
  • Escudo = 2 Pesos = 16 Reales (Soles) = 544 Maravedis, 1821-1863
  • Sol = 100 Centavos, 1863-1901
  • Inca = 10 Soles = 1.000 Reales, 1880-1882
  • Libra = 10 Soles, 1901-1985
  • Inti = (1.000 Soles) 1985-1991
  • Sol = (1.000.000 Intis) from1991

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Pick #	Date
		Republic
1-10	1879	1, 2, 5, 5, 10, 20, 20, 50, 100, 500 soles
1A-7A	1881	1, 2, 5, 5, 20 soles; ovpt "Arequipa"
11-13	1881	1, 5, 100 Reales; ovpt
14-17	1881	1, 5, 5, 100 Incas
18-20	1879	50, 50, 1.000 soles
21-24	1914	1/2, 1, 5, 10 Libras
25-26	1914	1/2, 1, 5, 10 Libras
29-31	1917	5, 50 centavos, 1 sol
32-35	1918	1/2, 1, 5, 10 Libras
36-39	1918	1/2, 1, 5, 10 Libras
40	1918	1 sol
48-51	1922	1, 5, 10 Libras
52-55	1926	1/2, 1, 5, 10 Libras
56-59	(1935)	5, 10, 50, 100 sloes; ovpt on 1922
60-63	(1935)	5, 10, 50, 100 sloes; ovpt on 1926
64-65	1935	50 centavos, 1 sol
66-69	1933-39	5, 10, 50, 100 soles
66A-69A	1941-50	5, 10, 50, 100 soles
70-74	1946-55	5, 10, 50, 100, 500 soles
75	1955	10 soles
76-80	1956-61	5, 10, 50, 100, 500 soles
81-82	1958	5, 10 soles
82A	1960-61	10 soles
83-87	1962-68	5, 10, 50, 100, 500 soles
88-91	1965	10, 50, 100, 500 soles
92-98	1968	5, 10, 50, 100, 200, 500. 1.000 soles
99-105	1969-74	5, 10, 50, 100, 200, 500. 1.000 soles
106-11	1975	10, 50, 100, 500. 1.000 soles
112-17	1976-85	10, 50, 100, 500. 1.000, 5.000 soles
118-21	1979-81	1.000, 5.000, 10.000 soles
122-25	1981-84	1.000, 5.000, 10.000, 50.000 soles
125A-B	1982-85	500, 50.000 soles
126-27	1985	100.000, 500.000 soles; provisional overprint
128-136	1985-88	10, 10, 50, 50, 100, 100, 500, 500, 1.000 Intis
137-143	1988	5.000, 5.000, 5.000, 10.000, 10.000, 50.000, 50.000 intis
144-150	1988-89	100.000, 100.000, 100.000, 500.000, 500.000, 500.000 intis
148-150	1990-91	1.000.000, 5.000.000, 5.000.000 intis
151-55	1991-92	10, 10, 20, 20, 50, 100 soles
156-62	1994-95	10, 10, 20, 20, 50, 100, 200 soles
163-65	1996	10, 20, 100 soles
166-69	1997-99	10, 20, 50, 50 soles
170-72	1999	20, 50, 100 soles
173-78	2000-6	10, 10, 20, 20, 50, 100 soles
179-81	2005-6	20, 50, 100 soles
182-86	2009	10, 20, 50, 100, 200 soles
187-91	2012-13	10, 20, 50, 100, 200 soles
192-5	2015-18	10, 20, 50, 100 soles
196-	2019-	10, 100 soles

		PERUVIAN PRIVATE BANKS
		- Banco Anglo-Peruano
s101-3A	1875	20, 40, 50 centavos, 1 sol
s104-8	1874-5	1, 5, 10, 20, 100 sol
		- Banco de Arequipa
s111-24	187-	20, 40, 40 centavos, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 20, 50, 50, 100, 500 sol
		- Banco de la Compaa General del Per
s131-4	1873	1, 5, 20, 100 sol
		- Banco de la Emancipacin
s141-3	1822	2, 4 real, 1 peso
		- Banco del Emisin del Cerro
s151-3	187-	1/10, 1/2 sol
		- Banco Garantizador
s161-8	1876	10, 20, 40 centavos, 1, 2, 5, 10, 50 sol
		- Banco la Providencia
s191-204	1863	5, 25, 25, 50, 50, 100, 100, 500, 500 peso
s209-14	1864	5, 20, 40, 80, 200 sol
s221-2	1869	4, 8 sol
s226-36	1867-77	1/2, 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 sol
		- Banco de Lima
s241-6	1870-6	1, 4, 8, 20, 50, 400 sol
		- Banco de Londres y Sud America
s251-7	18--	5, 25, 100, 1.000 pounds
		- Banco de Londres Mxico y Sud America
s261-7	186-	5, 25, 100, 1.000 pesos
s271-8	1866-72	2, 5, 5, 10, 25, 100, 500, 1.000 sol
s282-4	1871	1, 2, 5, 10 sol
s291-8	1873-4	1, 2, 5, 5, 10, 10, 25, 100, 500 sol
		- Banco Nacional del Per
s301-5	1873	10, 20, 20, 40, 40 centavos
s311-8	1871-3	1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 sol
s321-8	1877	1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 sol
s331-5	187-	1, 2, 5, 20, 100 sol; Tacna
s341-5	187-	1, 2, 5, 20, 100 sol; Yquique
		- Banco del Per
s351-5	1864-9	5, 10, 100, 500, 1.000 peso
s361-8	1864-77	1, 2, 4, 4, 10, 20, 20, 100 sol
		- Banco de Piura
s371-4	1864-9	1, 5, 10, 20 sol
		- Banco de Tacna
s381-7	187-	1/2, 1, 2, 5, 10, 50, 100 sol
s391-4	1886	1, 1, 10 sol; Chilean Occupation provisional overprint
		- Banco de Trujillo
s401-6	1864-9	50 centavos, 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 sol
s411-4	1876	10, 20, 50 centavos, 1 sol
		- Banco del Valle de Chicama
s421-5	18--	1/5, 1/2, 1, 5, 50 sol
		- Compaa de Obras Publicas y Fomento del Per
s441-9	1876	10, 20, 40 centavos, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 sol
		- Monte de Piedad de Callao (Pawn Shop)
s552-5	18--	5, 5 sol
		- Monte de Piedad de Lima (Pawn Shop)
s552-5	187-	4 sol

		REVOLUTION
		- Cheque Provisional (Iquitos Revolution, Guillermo Ceervantes)
s601-7	1921	10, 20, 50 centimavos, 1 sol, 1/2, 1, 5 libra