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5 Nuevos Pesos Founding of Montevideo - Pattern
| Issuer | Banco Central del Uruguay |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Value | 5 Nuevos Pesos (5 UYN) |
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| Reverse description | Central shield of the coat of arms of Montevideo, featuring a fortified tower and a pyramid surmounted by a radiant sun, with the motto LIBERTAD NI OFENDO NI TEMO inscribed across the escutcheon. The shield is flanked by symmetrical laurel and olive branches tied at the base, with a mural crown above. The legend 250 AÑOS DE LA FUNDACION DE MONTEVIDEO arcs along the upper periphery, and the date 1976 appears in the lower exergual area between two raised dots. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Uruguay's 1976 military government used the 250th anniversary of Montevideo's founding as an occasion for numismatic commemoration, but this copper-nickel striking never advanced beyond the pattern stage. Whether the rejection was budgetary, political, or simply a design committee decision is unrecorded. The dictatorship under Bordaberry and then Méndez was reorganizing the country's institutions wholesale during this period — the Banco Central itself had been subordinated to junta priorities.
KM#Pn109 remains sparsely documented in the standard references.