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1000 Pesos Uruguayos José Enrique Rodó
| Issuer | Banco Central del Uruguay |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY 2017 (Translation: Eastern Republic of Uruguay 2017) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.