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2000 Nuevos Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Central del Uruguay |
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| Year | 1989 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of painter Juan Manuel Blanes at right, set against a pink and red guilloche underprint. The Uruguayan coat of arms appears at upper left, with two facsimile signatures and their printed title designations below; denomination panels in red are placed at lower left and lower right. The issuer legend and date are printed at upper centre and right, with the note value repeated in both numeral and word form. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents the allegorical composition known as El Altar de la Patria, with a robed female personification of the Republic standing on a plinth and holding a staff, rendered in teal and ochre tones against a pastoral landscape with a lone hill. At right, an ornamental cartouche contains artistic attributes including a palette, referencing Blanes's vocation as a painter. Denomination panels in red at left and right are set within intricate guilloche borders, with the issuer name in bold letterpress at upper centre. |
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Uruguay's 2000 Nuevos Pesos denomination belonged to the second Nuevos Pesos series introduced after the 1975 monetary reform dropped three zeros from the old peso. By 1989, inflation was again severe enough that the 2000 unit note — once a significant sum — was losing purchasing power almost as fast as it could be printed. Within four years, the entire Nuevos Pesos system was itself retired when the Uruguayan peso was reintroduced in 1993, cutting another three zeros and effectively rendering this series obsolete overnight.
Thomas De La Rue's London facilities handled production, as they did for much of the series.