The winner of the Best New Series was the Banco Central de Reserva del Peru, which recently completed the introduction of Peru’s family of new notes with the 200 soles. The first notes in the series – the 10 and 100 soles – were put into circulation in mid-2021, followed a year later by the 20 and 50 soles and concluding with the 200 soles last December.

The new series was designed by De La Rue and is dedicated to Peruvian 20th century figures in the arts, literature, history and science, with indigenous fauna and flora on the reverse. For the first time, the reverse side of the notes have a vertical orientation. Both notes also include tactile marks to help the blind identify the note’s denomination.

All notes feature SICPA’s SPARK® Live, De La Rue’s GEMINI™, which splits into two colours under UV light, and rainbow fibres in four colours. The 10, 20 and 100 soles notes feature a 4mm wide RollingStar® security thread from Louisenthal and the 50 and 200 soles notes a RAPID® Detect thread from Crane.

This was the first wholesale redesign of Peru’s currency since 1991 and was a collective effort between suppliers – De La Rue for the design, different printers for the individual denominations, along with the two suppliers of the security threads.