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200 Pesos Uruguayos
| Issuer | Banco Central del Uruguay |
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| Year | 2006-2009 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The left two-thirds of the reverse are occupied by a full-color reproduction of "Baile Antiguo" (Ancient Dance), a celebrated interior scene by Pedro Figari rendered in his characteristic Post-Impressionist palette of warm yellows, reds, and blues, with elegantly attired couples gathered in a ballroom beneath chandeliers. To the right, a vignette of an artist's palette and brushes within a laurel wreath serves as a secondary motif, set against a multi-color guilloche background. The denomination "DOSCIENTOS" appears in bold intaglio letters at lower right, above the legend "MONEDA NACIONAL", with "$200" repeated in the upper left and lower right corners. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DEL URUGUAY PESOS URUGUAYOS DOSCIENTOS MONEDA NACIONAL BAILE ANTIGUO (Translation: Central Bank of Uruguay Pesos Uruguayos Two hundred National currency Ancient Dance) |
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Oberthur's contract for the Uruguayan peso series of this period represented one of the French firm's larger Latin American commissions, and the 200-peso denomination sits in an awkward position in the series — introduced as the 100-peso note's purchasing power eroded following Uruguay's 2002 banking crisis, one of the most severe financial collapses in the country's history. The IMF emergency intervention and the peso's sharp devaluation that year effectively forced the central bank to rethink the denomination structure entirely.
Cotton substrate with basic thread-and-watermark security places this squarely in the lower tier of Oberthur's production specifications for the period — adequate for a note expected to turn over quickly in retail circulation.