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1000 Pesos FAO - Copper Pattern
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Uruguay |
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| Year | 1969 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a central circular medallion displaying a stylized sun face motif, surrounded by four quadrants filled with an array of abstract and stylized pictographic designs representing agricultural and natural themes, including fish, animals, plants, and geometric symbols, all rendered in a flat modernist idiom. The engraver's signature 'MATIO' appears in the lower right quadrant. The circumferential legend reads 'F.A.O.' along the upper arc and 'FIAT PANIS' along the lower arc, with the date '1969' inscribed at the very bottom of the coin below the inner circle. |
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This copper piece is a pattern struck by the Casa de Moneda in anticipation of the FAO's global coin program, which enlisted national mints throughout the late 1960s to issue coinage promoting food production and agricultural development. Uruguay's participation reflected the acute economic pressures of the period — the country was deep in the monetary instability that would eventually force a full currency reform in 1975, collapsing the peso at a ratio of 1000 old pesos to one new peso. The denomination itself, then, was already a casualty in waiting.