2 Pesos Pattern

Uruguay's 1870 gold coinage program was part of a broader push to establish a nationally controlled monetary system, accelerating after the country's devastating involvement in the War of the Triple Alliance ended in 1869. This pattern was almost certainly produced at the Paris Mint, which struck the majority of Uruguay's 19th-century coinage under contract. The "PnA28" designation indicates it sits in a sequence of pattern proposals, suggesting multiple denominations or design variants were submitted simultaneously rather than a single approved type progressing to circulation.

Fr#4 in Friedberg places it among the rarest Uruguayan gold issues — patterns of this period rarely survive in numbers exceeding single digits.