Catalog
10 Pesos Specimen only
| Issuer | Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay |
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| Year | 1896 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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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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| Obverse lettering | el BANCO de le REPÚBLICA ORIENTAL del URUGUAY Pagará al portador y á la vista la cantidad de DIEZ PESOS EN MONEDA LEGAL DE ORO SELLADO. Ley de 4 de Agosto de 1896 Montevideo, 24 de Agosto de 1896. (Translation: The Bank of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay will pay to the bearer and at sight the amount of Ten Pesos On legal currency of gold sealed Law of August 4th., 1896 Montevideo August 24th., 1896.) |
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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.