3134) "Huaca de la Luna" ("Temple or Shrine of the Moon")", Peru: "Riqueza y Orgullo del Peru” ("Wealth and Pride of Peru Coin Series"): A 1 (One) Sol Coin showcases the Temple or Shrine dedicated to the Moon: Date/Year of Coin issue: 2014:
The Central Reserve Bank of Peru in 2010 unveiled the design for one-sol coins, in its numismatic series called “Riqueza y Orgullo del Peru” ("Wealth and Pride of Peru").
The "Wealth and Pride of Peru" series first began in 2010 with the issue of the Golden Tumi as its motif.
Successive coins were issued such as the Karajia Sarcophagi, the Estela de Raimondi, the Chullupas of Sillustani, Machu Picchu, the Monastery of Santa Catalina, the Saywite Stone, the Great Pajaten, the Real Felipe Fortress, and the Temple of Vilcashuamán, and the Ruins/Monolith of Kuntur Wasi.
The Coins launched in this one-sol series included 26 unique designs reflecting Peru’s history and traditions.
Peru’s Central Bank has issued a new sol coin featuring the "Huaca de la Luna" ("Temple or Shrine of the Moon")" in 2014 in its Wealth and Pride series of collectors’ coins.
"Huaca de la Luna" ("Temple or Shrine of the Moon")":
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This is a large adobe brick structure built mainly by the "Moche people" of Northern Peru.
Along with the "Huaca del Sol", the "Huaca de la Luna" is part of "Huacas de Moche", which is the remains of an ancient Moche capital city called "Cerro Blanco", by the volcanic peak of the same name.
The Huacas de Moche site is located 4 km outside the modern city of Trujillo, near the mouth of the Moche River valley.
The Huaca de la Luna, although it is the smaller of the two huacas at the site, has yielded the most archaeological information.
The "Huaca del Sol" was partially destroyed and looted by Spanish conquistadors in the seventeenth century, who were out to destroy all other cultures, without undestanding the significant characteristics of these cultures, while the Huaca de la Luna was left relatively untouched.
Archeologists believe that the "Huaca del Sol" for administrative, military, and residential functions, as well as a burial mound for the Moche elite. The Huaca de la Luna served primarily a ceremonial and religious function, although it contains burials as well.
Present Day:
The "Huaca de la Luna" is coloured soft brown of its adobe brickwork.
At the time of construction, it was decorated in registers of murals that were painted in black, bright red, sky blue, white, and yellow. The sun and weather have since utterly faded these murals away.
Inside the Huaca are other murals created in earlier phases of construction.
Many of these depict a deity now known as "Ayapec". "Ayapec" is a "Muchik" word translating as "all knowing").
Many of the later bricks used in the structure bear one of more than 100 different markings, corresponding to groups of labourers from different communities.
Each "team" was assigned a mark to put on their bricks and these were used to count the number of bricks laid for financial as well as competitive purposes.
The "Huaca de la Luna" is a large complex of three main platforms, each one serving a different function:
The Northernmost platform, at one time brightly decorated with a variety of murals and reliefs, was destroyed by looters.
The surviving Central and Southern platforms have been the focus of most excavations.
The Central platform has yielded multiple high-status burials interred with a variety of fine ceramics, suggesting that it was used as a burial ground for the Moche religious elite. The grave goods found at the Huaca del Sol suggest it may have been used for the interment of political rulers.
The Eastern platform, black rock, and adjacent patios were the sites of human sacrifice rituals.
These are depicted in a variety of Moche graphic representations, most notably painted ceramics. After the sacrifice, bodies of victims would be hurled over the side of the Huaca and left exposed in the patios.
Researchers have discovered multiple skeletons of adult males at the foot of the rock, all of whom show signs of trauma, usually a severe blow to the head, as the cause of death.
The World Monuments Fund has been working at Huaca de la Luna to support needed conservation work. This includes ongoing assessments, documentation, stabilisation, and consolidation of excavated architectural and decorative elements.
Commemorative Coin:
Inscribed towards the centre left periphery is the inscription - "HUACA DE LA LUNA. S. I - IX d.C.".
Vertically engraved is seen "1 NEUVO SOL".
The specifications of the One Sol Coin are:
Country of issue: Republic of Peru; Coin Series Theme: "Riqueza y Orgullo del Peru” ("Wealth and Pride of Peru Coin Series"); Coin Theme: "Huaca de la Luna" ("Temple or Shrine of the Moon")"; Coin Quality: Circulation Commemorative Coin; Date/Year of Coin issue: 26.11.2013; Denomination of Coin: 1 (One Nuevo Sol); Metal Composition: Nickel-brass; Weight: 7.32 grams; Diameter/Size: 25.5 mm; Thickness: 1.9 mm; Minted By: National Mint House; Mint Mark: LIMA; Mintage: 10.00 Million pieces; Shape: Round; Technique: Milled; Orientation/Coin alignment: ↑↓; Edge: Reeded.
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