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50 000 Nuevos Pesos Ibero-American Series
| Issuer | Banco Central del Uruguay |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Weight | 27 g |
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| Obverse lettering | URUGUAY N$ 50.000 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Uruguay's Ibero-American series coins were struck as part of a coordinated multi-nation program launched in 1991, with Spain's Casa de la Moneda organizing participating mints across Latin America to issue companion pieces annually. The program was explicitly tied to the approaching quincentenary of Columbus's 1492 voyage, and Uruguay's entry for that inaugural year falls within that commemorative framework.
The denomination itself — 50,000 Nuevos Pesos — reflects the inflationary arithmetic of Uruguayan monetary history. The Nuevo Peso had replaced the original Peso in 1975 at 1,000:1, and by 1993 the country would replace it again with the Peso Uruguayo at another 1,000:1 conversion.