1000 Pesos Law of Jan 2nd., 1939 - Issued by BROU

By the time this note was issued in 1952, the 1,000 Peso denomination was already operating under a legal fiction — the authorizing legislation dated to January 2nd, 1939, meaning the printing mandate was over thirteen years old. Uruguay's postwar inflation had eroded lower denominations enough that a four-figure note was now practical currency rather than a prestige instrument, yet BROU continued issuing under the original law rather than seeking fresh authorization.

Thomas De La Rue produced the series in London. The watermark remains the sole mechanical security feature — modest by the standards De La Rue was capable of at the time.