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1000 Pesos Uruguayos José Enrique Rodó
| Issuer | Banco Central del Uruguay |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#149 |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY 2017 (Translation: Eastern Republic of Uruguay 2017) |
| Reverse description | Central portrait of José Enrique Rodó as a young man of approximately 21 years of age, facing slightly left, rendered in relief within the field. Curved legends flank the portrait on the left and right bearing the commemorative event title. The birth and death years of Rodó appear at centre right, and the face value is inscribed in the exergue. |
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Rodó's 1900 essay Ariel positioned Latin American youth as the inheritors of a Hellenic spiritual tradition against what he saw as the corrosive materialism of North American culture — an argument that made him one of the most politically weaponized writers in 20th-century regional discourse, claimed at various points by nationalists, reformists, and the Cuban Revolution alike. Uruguay has commemorated him repeatedly, and this silver issue appeared as part of the BCU's ongoing series honoring national cultural figures in the lead-up to the country's sesquicentennial observances.