Uruguayan Banknotes

Uruguay has a banknote design tradition much more refined than its size suggests. The Central Bank combines portraits of cultural figures—Zorrilla de San Martín, Juana de Ibarbourou, Eduardo Fabini—with a sober typography that does not resemble that of its neighbors.

Artigas everywhere

José Gervasio Artigas, the hero of independence, has appeared on Uruguayan banknotes for decades in different versions of his portrait. Following the evolution of that image is a simple way to organize the collection chronologically.

The pesos of the crisis

The inflation of the seventies and eighties forced two redenominations, with the transition from the peso to the "nuevo peso" and then to the Uruguayan peso. Earlier banknotes are cheap and abundant.

What you will find here

Uruguayan pesos with Pick reference and actual condition, including polymer issues. They complement Argentina and Paraguay in the Southern Cone.

Shipping

Protected and tracked from Spain.

Discover more banknotes from the region in Banknotes of America.