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Portrait of Brigadier General Juan Antonio Lavalleja at right, rendered in intaglio. The national arms appear at top center, flanked by fine guilloche underprint work across the face. Denomination and title inscriptions are printed in dark ink against a multicoloured background. |
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A central vignette presents a colourful historical scene of the oath-taking ceremony of the 1830 Constitution, with figures gathered before a columned public building draped in flags, set within a rectangular frame. Flanking the vignette are geometric guilloche panels in muted tones of red and green, with palm frond motifs at left. Denomination numerals appear in each corner, and the issuing bank's name runs along the lower margin in bold letterpress. |
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The 1997 series marked the Banco Central del Uruguay's transition to a new currency unit — the Peso Uruguayo, redenominated at 1,000 to 1 against the old Nuevo Peso, itself a redenomination from 1975. This 5 Peso Uruguayo note sits near the bottom of that series, a denomination that lost practical utility quickly as inflation continued eroding small-value notes throughout the late 1990s.
Thomas De La Rue printed the series in London under contract, a long-standing arrangement for Uruguayan currency. The watermark remains the sole listed security feature — modest protection for a low-denomination note with a short working life.