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10 Pesos Specimen only
| Issuer | Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay |
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| Year | 1896 |
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| Currency | Peso (1863-1975) |
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| Obverse description | At left, a portrait vignette of President Juan Idiarte Borda; at right, a female allegorical figure representing the Republic, with the national coat of arms positioned below her. The face value is rendered at centre, and the issuer's full title runs in a legend across the upper border of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface; the reverse is unprinted plain paper, entirely without ornamental design, lettering, or guilloche work, consistent with the trial or specimen character of this note. Two cancellation punch holes are present near the lower centre of the sheet. |
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Giesecke & Devrient produced this note for Uruguay's central issuing authority during a period when the República Oriental was actively consolidating its banking legislation following the financial crisis of the early 1890s — a collapse that wiped out several private Uruguayan banks and forced a wholesale restructuring of the currency system. The specimen designation here is significant: P#5A is not known to have circulated, and no issued examples have been confirmed in major auction records.
G&D specimens of this era typically bear "SPECIMEN" or "MUESTRA" overprints with zero-series serial numbers and cancellation holes, though the exact form varies across the 1896 Uruguayan series.