10 Pesos Sesquicentennial of Revolution Against Spain

Uruguay's 1811 revolution against Spanish rule was led by José Artigas, whose cattle-driving gauchos formed the backbone of an insurgency that Spain never fully suppressed — the colony was ultimately lost not to defeat in battle but to the geopolitical collapse of the entire empire. The sesquicentennial fell in 1961, during a period of relative Uruguayan prosperity before the economic crises of the late 1960s would make silver coinage politically untenable.

Struck at the Casa de Moneda de Uruguay, the .900 fine standard matches the broader Latin American commemorative conventions of the period.