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1 Peso Constitution Centennial
| Issuer | Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay |
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| Year | 1930 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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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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| Reverse description | Two standing indigenous male figures in feathered headdresses serve as lateral caryatid-style supports flanking a central maritime and heraldic vignette, which includes a sailing vessel at right and the Uruguayan coat of arms surmounted by the Sun of May at top center, set against a seascape with a large watermark reserve at left. The commemorative inscription CENTENARIO DE 1830 runs across the top border, with the denomination numeral 1 at upper right. |
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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.