1 Peseta Utuado

Utuado sits in the mountainous interior of Puerto Rico, far from the coastal administrative centers that defined Spanish colonial rule, and the choice to honor it in this series reflects a deliberate effort to document the island's pre-colonial Taíno heritage — the area contains one of the largest known Taíno ceremonial sites in the Caribbean, the Caguana Indigenous Ceremonial Park. The 2009 peseta series itself is a modern commemorative program issued under Puerto Rico's cultural institutions, not a circulating currency, adopting the peseta denomination as a historical reference to the Spanish colonial monetary system that governed the island until 1898.