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2000 Nuevos Pesos BID Meeting, Trial strike
| Issuer | Uruguay |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Currency | Nuevo peso (1975-1993) |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Uruguay displayed at center, featuring an oval shield divided into four quarters bearing a scales of justice, an ox, a fortified hill, and a horse, surmounted by a radiant sun rising above the shield. The arms are encircled by a laurel and olive wreath. The legend REPUBLICA ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY arcs around the upper periphery, with the date 1984 inscribed in the exergue below the wreath. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY 1984 |
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The BID — Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, known in English as the Inter-American Development Bank — held its 1984 annual meeting in Punta del Este. Uruguay issued commemorative pieces for the occasion while the country was navigating a severe economic crisis that had seen the peso decimated through the early 1980s. Trial strikes in aluminium were produced to test dies before committing to a final composition, and most never entered circulation or official distribution.
KM#Pn117 places this firmly in pattern territory. The aluminium substrate itself was almost certainly a cost-driven test choice given Uruguay's fiscal constraints that year.