$U20 — Twenty Pesos
The artwork
Front: Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, the poet of "La Leyenda Patria" and "Tabaré", engraved three-quarters facing left with his heavy beard and high forehead, his name on a ribbon beneath the shoulder. The national arms sit in the left panel above a vertical URUGUAY, with signatures for Presidente, Gerente General and Secretario General across the middle, and VEINTE picked out in green and mauve.
Back: A winged allegorical figure in flowing drapery, captioned ALEGORIA DE LA LEYENDA PATRIA — the personification of Zorrilla's patriotic poem, filling the left half in deep green. To the right, a scroll bearing lines of the poet's own hand with TABARE and LA LEYENDA PATRIA beneath, wreathed in laurel, and VEINTE in a green panel over MONEDA NACIONAL.
In circulation
Part of the peso uruguayo family introduced after the 1993 currency reform, when a thousand nuevos pesos became one peso. This Series A note is dated 1994; the same design was reprinted with later dates through the decade before the redesigned pesos of the 2000s, which kept Zorrilla de San Martín on the twenty, took over.
Details
- IssuerBanco Central del Uruguay
- CurrencyPeso ($U)
- DenominationTwenty Pesos
- Collectedon the Uruguay journey, 1997
- SeriesSerie A, dated 1994
- PrinterThomas De La Rue and Company Limited
- SignatureThree: Presidente, Gerente General, Secretario General
- SecurityOval watermark panel at right of the face; red and green serial numbers, vertical and horizontal