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20 Centésimos de Real
| Issuer | Uruguay |
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| Year | 1854-1855 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY • (Translation: Oriental Republic of Uruguay 1855) |
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| Mintage | 1854 - SA# 9.1.1; CG# 9.1.A - 21.5 g - 50,000 1854 - SA# 9.2.1; CG# 9.2.A - 19.5 g - 1855 - SA# 11.1.1; CG# 11.1.A - 21 g - 30,000 1855 - SA# 11.1.2; CG# 11.1.B - 20.5 g - 1855 - SA# 11.2.1; CG# 11.2.A - 20 g - |
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Uruguay's earliest copper coinage was struck not in South America but in Europe — these pieces were produced by private contract mints, with the 1854–1855 issues attributed to the Birmingham firm of Ralph Heaton & Sons. The newly independent republic had no domestic minting infrastructure and depended entirely on foreign contractors for its first circulating coinage.
The multiple KM references reflect distinct die varieties across the two-year run, a common complication with contracted colonial-era issues where dies were cut independently between batches.