5 Pesos Uruguayos

This note inaugurated Uruguay's "Pesos Uruguayos" redenomination series, introduced after the country shed the Nuevos Pesos designation it had carried since the brutal 1975 monetary reform — itself a response to hyperinflation that had wiped out the original Peso. The 5 PU was the lowest denomination in the new family, and De La Rue produced the series to a relatively tight security specification by late-1990s standards: watermark and embedded thread, no hologram, no color-shifting ink.

The series was superseded quickly; polymer replacements and redesigned issues pushed most cotton-paper examples out of active use within a few years of release.