Uruguay 1960 peso

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This type was struck in 1960 only. There are a similar twenty-five centésimos and fifty centésimos (KM 40, KM 41). The sixties saw the beginning of the hyperinflation that would devour Uruguayan prosperity and aggravate the right wing/Marxist conflicts of the seventies.

Recorded mintage: 8,000,000.

Specification: copper-nickel.

Catalog reference: KM 42.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

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• 1953 2 centésimos
• 1960 5 centésimos
• 1960 10 centésimos
• 1960 25 centésimos
• 1960 50 centésimos
• 1973 100 pesos
• Coins and currency dated 1960
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