2000 Pesos Uruguayos Bicentenary of Land Regulation

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.