Catalog
10 Pesos Provisional
| Issuer | Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay |
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| Year | 1896 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | At upper left, a vignette of Liberty as an allegorical female figure wearing a classical helmet; to the right, a cherub supports the Uruguayan coat of arms. The face value is centered within the note, with the issuing bank's name inscribed across the top in letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a pastoral Uruguayan countryside scene with cattle, figures, and rural dwellings rendered in fine intaglio engraving, framed by elaborate guilloche rosettes. Large numeral "10" denominators appear within ornate cartouches on both the left and right sides, with the value legend repeated in the upper and lower border panels. |
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The South American Bank Note Company operated out of Buenos Aires and supplied much of the region's printed currency in the late nineteenth century — a practical arrangement that avoided the cost and delay of contracting European printers, though the engraving quality rarely matched contemporary work from Bradbury Wilkinson or the American Bank Note Company. Uruguay's central bank had only been established in 1896, the same year this note was issued, making P#1A among the earliest paper currency from the institution rather than a commercial predecessor.
The "Provisional" designation reflects the transitional status of the bank itself at the moment of issue — operating under temporary charter provisions while permanent legislation was still being consolidated in Montevideo.