$U2000 — Two Thousand Pesos
The artwork
Front: Juan Manuel Blanes, named on the ribbon beneath him — the painter of Uruguay's founding myths, and an odd, welcome choice of face for a banknote. The engraved head sits in olive-grey against a pale green guilloche, with the national coat of arms at upper left and the word URUGUAY set vertically down the counterfoil. Orange lettering: BANCO CENTRAL DEL URUGUAY, NUEVOS PESOS, DOS MIL, MONEDA NACIONAL. A large orange disc balances the right side.
Back: A seated, robed woman in blue-green, rays of light spreading behind her head and banners heaped at her side, captioned EL ALTAR DE LA PATRIA — an appropriately Blanes-flavoured allegory of the nation to accompany the painter on the face. The issuer's name is repeated in dark grey at the upper right above NUEVOS PESOS and DOS MIL in orange, with N$2.000 in each corner.
In circulation
One of the last and largest of the nuevos pesos notes, dated 1989 and circulating into the early 1990s as inflation pushed the denomination upward. It was swept away by the 1993 currency reform, when the peso uruguayo replaced the nuevo peso at a thousand to one and an entirely new series of notes took over.
Details
- IssuerBanco Central del Uruguay
- CurrencyPeso ($U)
- DenominationTwo Thousand Pesos
- Collectedon the Uruguay journey, 1997
- Series1989, Serie A
- PrinterThomas de la Rue & Company Limited
- SignatureTwo signatures at right, titled Gerente General and Secretario General, with a third above