* The exchange rates recorded up to the end of June 1991 were in "millones de intis". Currency conversion with effect from 1 July 1991 at the rate of PEI (intis) 1,000,000 = PEN (nuevo sol) 1; banknotes and coins denominated in PEN only entered into circulation from October 1991 onward. To prepare for the currency conversion, from 1 January 1991, all amounts denominated in inti (including in documents, on cheques, in prices and exchange rates) were indicated in millions and were accompanied by the words "millones de intis"; ie 530,000 intis = 0.53 "millones de intis". On 15 December 2015, the currency name was changed from Nuevo Sol (PEN) to Sol (PEN).
Methodology
Calculated on the basis of the buying and selling rates.
Source
Since 1993: Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP, Lima 1991 - end of 1992: Dresdner Bank Lateinamerika AG, Hamburg (formerly: Deutsch-Südamerikanische Bank AG)
