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2 Nuevos Pesos FAO
| Issuer | Banco Central del Uruguay |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| In circulation to | 30 November 1991 |
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| Obverse lettering | 1981 URUGUAY |
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| Reverse lettering | DIA MUNDIAL DE LA ALIMENTACION 2 N$ 16 DE OCTUBRE DE 1981 |
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Uruguay's 1981 FAO coinage was issued under the military dictatorship that had governed the country since 1973, a government that paradoxically embraced the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization coin program as a vehicle for projecting normalcy on the international stage. The FAO program, which ran globally from the late 1960s onward, encouraged member nations to issue coins with agricultural themes as a form of soft diplomacy around food security messaging.
The "Nuevos Pesos" designation itself reflects the 1975 monetary reform that replaced the original peso at 1,000-to-1.