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2000 Pesos Uruguayos Bicentenary of Land Regulation
| Issuer | Banco Central del Uruguay |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Weight | 25 g |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing portrait effigy of General José Gervasio Artigas occupies the central field, rendered in colorized style with superimposed diagonal stripes evoking the Artigas flag in the foreground. The legend REPÚBLICA ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY curves in a semicircle above the portrait, while the denomination $ 2.000 appears along the lower right in the field. The overall design integrates patriotic symbolism through the flag-referencing color treatment applied to the coin's surface. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The 1815 Reglamento de Tierras, issued under the authority of José Artigas, was a genuinely radical document for its time — redistributing land expropriated from royalists and enemies of the revolution to poor gauchos, indigenous communities, and freed slaves in explicit priority order. It was never fully implemented; the Portuguese invasion of 1816 effectively ended Artigas's control over the Banda Oriental before the policy could take hold.
Uruguay issued this coin two centuries after a reform that failed in practice but survived as a founding myth of agrarian justice.