$U10 — Ten Pesos
The artwork
Front: The Plaza de la Democracia in Montevideo with its Monumento a la Bandera — a low concrete slab and stepped terraces beneath three bare flagpoles, one flying the striped Uruguayan flag with its Sun of May. Palms and pines crowd both sides, a heavy tree filling the right edge. The value panel reads PESOS URUGUAYOS / DIEZ / MONEDA NACIONAL, with an oval reserve at left for the watermark and the decree number above.
Back: Nineteen departmental coats of arms, ranged in three rows across a green and buff ground and captioned ESCUDOS DEPARTAMENTALES along the foot — Cerro Largo, Colonia, Durazno, Flores, Lavalleja, Maldonado, Montevideo, Paysandú, Rivera, San José de Mayo, Soriano, Tacuarembó and the rest, each with its own castles, ploughs, hills and rising suns. PESOS URUGUAYOS runs vertically up the left panel; the bank's name is stacked in the lower right.
In circulation
Issued by the Banco Central under Decreto-Ley No. 14.316 in the mid-1970s, at the tail end of the old peso. The nuevo peso, worth a thousand of these, arrived in 1975 and brought its own family of notes, so the small Pesos Uruguayos denominations had a short working life.
Details
- IssuerBanco Central del Uruguay
- CurrencyPeso ($U)
- DenominationTen Pesos
- Collectedon the Uruguay journey, 1997
- SeriesDecreto-Ley No. 14.316; Serie A
- PrinterGiesecke & Devrient
- WatermarkArtigas, in the oval reserve at left
- SignatureThree: Gerente General, Secretario General and Presidente