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1 Peso Constitution Centennial
| Issuer | Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay |
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| Year | 1930 |
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| Size | 134 × 76 mm |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed allegorical female bust in three-quarter right profile at center-right, wearing a laurel-wreathed classical helmet with feathered crest and ornate armor, rendered in fine engraved style by G. Hourriez after S. Laurent. The denomination UN PESO is printed in large letterpress text at center-left, flanked by the bank title across the top and the legal tender inscription, date MONTEVIDEO, JULIO 18 DE 1930, and three manuscript signatures below. A watermark portrait of Artigas is visible to the right of the vignette. |
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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 EN MONEDA LEGAL DE ORO O PLATA SELLADA LEY DE 4 DE AGOSTO DE 1896 MONTEVIDEO, JULIO 18 DE 1930 S. LAURENT DEL. G. HOURRIEZ SC. (Translation: The bank of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay will pay to the bearer and on sight the amount of One Peso Legal currency in stamped gold or silver Law of Aug. 4th., 1896 Montevideo, July 18th., 1930) |
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Uruguay's 1930 constitution centennial commemorated a century since the country's first constitution of 1830, adopted just years after independence from Brazil. This note was engraved in Paris by Georges Hourriez on the obverse and Eugène Gaspérini on the reverse — a division of labor typical of Banque de France commissions, where different engravers handled each face. Serveau, who designed the reverse, was a prolific French illustrator and poster artist whose work appeared on several Latin American issues of the period through the same printing house.
Pick 17 is the only denomination in the series produced specifically for the centennial occasion.