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1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay |
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| Year | 1934 |
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| Value | 1 Peso (1 UYP) |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR Y A LA VISTA LA CANTIDAD DE UN PESO UN PESO en moneda legal de oro o plata sellada LEY DE 4 DE AGOSTO DE 1896 MONTEVIDEO 9 DE AGOSTO DE 1934 (Translation: The bank of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay will pay the bearer on sight the amount of One Peso Legal currency in stamped gold or silver Law of Aug. 4th., 1896 Montevideo, August 9th., 1934) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Giesecke & Devrient produced this note during a period when the Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay was consolidating its role as the nation's sole issuing authority — a function it had held formally only since 1896. The Leipzig connection is worth noting: G&D supplied banknotes to numerous Latin American governments through the interwar decades, and the quality of their intaglio work was the primary reason they kept these contracts despite the obvious logistical complications of transatlantic procurement.
The watermark is the sole security feature — modest by contemporary European standards, though not unusual for low-denomination circulation notes of this period in the region.