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| Issuer | Uruguay |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 1996 - Casa de Moneda de Chile; Proof - 10,000 |
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Melo is the capital of Cerro Largo department, near the Brazilian border, and this issue belongs to Uruguay's "Ciudades del Uruguay" series of the 1990s — a program that produced silver commemoratives honoring provincial capitals at a moment when Uruguay was aggressively expanding its collector coin market after years of economic instability. The series attracted strong interest from regional collectors but limited secondary market depth outside South America.