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1000 Pesos Uruguayos La Cumparsita
| Issuer | Banco Central del Uruguay |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A portrait of composer Gerardo Matos Rodríguez occupies the left portion of the field, set against a background styled to evoke the grooves and label of a vintage gramophone record. A curved inscription along the outer legend reads '• CENTENARIO DE LA CUMPARSITA • 1917 • Montevideo •', with '2017' appearing on an inner arc. The central disc label area bears the composer's name, the tango title, and the publisher reference 'Alonso-Minotto 79-A.' |
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| Reverse lettering | • CENTENARIO DE LA CUMPARSITA • 1917 • Montevideo • 2017 Gerardo Matos Rodríguez La Cumparsita Tango Alonso-Minotto 79-A (Translation: 100th anniversary of 'La Cumparsita' 1917 Montevideo 2017 Gerardo Matos Rodríguez La Cumparsita Tango Alonso & Minotto 79-A) |
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La Cumparsita was composed in 1916 by Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, then a nineteen-year-old architecture student in Montevideo, as a march for his student fraternity. It was later adapted with lyrics and became arguably the most internationally recognized tango ever written — the piece most likely to close a milonga anywhere from Buenos Aires to Tokyo. Uruguay and Argentina have long contested its cultural ownership, a dispute that never fully resolved.
The .900 fine specification places this squarely in the collector-issue tradition rather than any monetary function; no 1000-peso silver coin entered general circulation.