Depicts the coat of arms of Peru surrounded by the inscription "Central Reserve Bank of Peru", date below.

Peruvian coat of arms consisting of three elements: the top left section shows the vicuña, the national animal, representing the fauna of Peru; the tree in the top right section is the cinchona tree (the source of quinine, a powerful anti-malarial drug and the key flavorant in tonic water), representing the national flora; and the bottom cornucopia with coins spilling from it, represents the mineral resources of the country. It has a palm branch on its left and an laurel one on its right, tied by a ribbon, as well as a Holm oak Civic Crown above it. These represent God, gold, and glory.

Depicts a portrait of Manuel Lorenzo de Vidaurre, value below. On the left side the inscription "Bicentennial 1821-2021", his name above. The symbol LMA on the right represents the mark of the National Mint on a background of vertical lines.

Manuel Lorenzo de Vidaurre y Encalada (1773-1841 ) was a Peruvian jurist, politician and essayist. He was one of the reformist precursors of the independence of Peru, that is, those who considered that the problems of the colonies could be solved with reforms emanating from the Spanish Crown and without reaching the separation of the metropolis, ideas that he exposed in two books, American letters and Plan of Peru, written in the 1810s and published only in 1823. However, after travelling through France, England, Spain and the United States, he made deep reflections and finally accepted the need for separation (1823). Already in his role as an independence hero, he contributed with his services and his legal proposals to the foundation of the republican project. During the Bolivarian dictatorship, he was successively a flatterer and a detractor of the Liberator Bolívar. He was the first president of the Supreme Court of Justice of Peru (1825), a position he held three times. He was also president of the Constituent Congress in 1827 and minister of Government and Foreign Relations in that same year and in 1832.

Engraver: Felipe Escalante Chuñocca