Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Peru P179 10 Nuevos Soles

Pick: P179
Date:
11.8.2005, 21.12.2006
Colour: Dark green and blue-green on multicolor underprint.























P179a - Date 11 August 2005


 
 P179B - Date 21 December 2006













Two examples of money exchange stamps on the back of Peruvian 10 New Soles notes.   The stamps indicate that the note has been check to be genuine.

Since 2009 the South American nation of Peru has become the new number one nation in the world to export the most counterfeit banknotes.  Counterfeiters has managed to make very good fake US and Peruvian currency.  They have even been able to print watermarks in a light gray which when held up to light looks like a real watermark. 

All cashiers and customers checks their banknotes before accepting them.  Damaged, soiled or banknotes with writing will not be accepted.  Some money exchange places stamp the back of their genuine banknotes before distribution.

This note is similar to P174 but without colored planchettes. 

Front: WW II era fighter plane as monument at upper center, José Abelardo Quiñones at right, arms at upper right, statue of a North American NA-50 simple single seat, low-wing, single engine fighter.  José Abelardo Quiñones Gonzáles (April 22, 1914 – July 23, 1941) was a Peruvian military aviator and national aviation hero. He died crashing his plane in a kamikaze attack during the Battle of Zarumilla in the Ecuadorian-Peruvian war. 

Back: A Boeing-Stearman Model 75 a biplane used as a military trainer aircraft in the 1940s.  The biplane is inverted signifying the pilot's death.

Watermark: José Abelardo Quiñones

Printer: François-Charles Oberthür

Varieties
a. 11.8.2005
*b. 21.12.2006


* Not listed in Krause Catalog

Catalog Value: $8.00 UNC

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