1000 Pesos FAO

1000 Pesos (FAO) - obverse1000 Pesos (FAO) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Uruguay
Period Oriental Republic of Uruguay (1825-date)
Type Circulating commemorative coin
Year 1969
Value 1000 Pesos (1000 UYP)
Currency Peso (1863-1975)
Composition Silver (.900)
Weight 25 g
Diameter 37 mm
Thickness 2.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized 4 April 1972
Number
N#
23255
References KM# 55,
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States.
And 5 more volumes.
SA# 98,
Marcos Silvera Antúnez; 2017. Cátalogo de monedas del Uruguay 1831-2017 (9th edition). Ediciones El Galeón, Montevideo, Uruguay.
CG# 96.1,
Mario Sánchez, Eduardo Freijanes and Ramón Rodríguez Fernández; 2022. Catálogo General de Monedas de Uruguay 1840-2022 = General Catalog of Uruguayan Coins 1840-2022.
Y# 53
Richard S. Yeoman, Arthur L. Friedberg; 2007. A Catalog of Modern World Coins : 1850-1964 (14th edition). Whitman Publishing Company, Atlanta, United States.
And 1 more volumes.

Commemorative issue

FAO

Obverse

Stylized radiant sun with face

Script: Latin

Lettering:
- URUGUAY -
MIL PESOS

Translation:
Uruguay
One thousand Pesos

Engraver: Francisco Matto Vilaró

Reverse

Assorted stylized designs within circle (See coments below)

Script: Latin

Lettering:
• F A O •
FIAT 1969 PANIS

Translation:
F.A.O. (Food and Agriculture Organization)
FIAT PANIS: Latin= Make food
1969

Engraver: Francisco Matto Vilaró

Edge

Inscripted

Script: Latin

Lettering: REPUBLICA ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY So

Translation: Oriental Republic of Uruguay So (Santiago mintmark)

1000 Pesos (FAO) -  obverse

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Mint

So Casa de Moneda de Chile, Santiago, Chile (1743-date)

Comments

This coin was created to adhere to the numismatic FAO program and is present on sets "Food for All" (Panel 2A) and FAO Album (page 9). The design is based upon the esthetical style created by the uruguayan artist Joaquin Torres Garcia (known as "Constructive Universalism" or "Constructivism").

On the obverse shows a Sun, Constuctivist version, and on reverse several symbols. Torres Garcia thought art should not copy nature, but not negate it either. Symbols are modern, but also remind native symbolism. They are so simple and bidimensionals, that evocate primitive art, and are very easy to understand them, main are: the fish (Nature), the triangle (Reason), the heart (feelings), man and woman.


Meanings of the symbols on reverse:
1: Creator's Face; 2: carpenter's square; 3: Universal Man, no races; 4: eel (representing sea element; 5: oxen yoke ; 6: seeds; 7: bird and seed; 8: fruit tree branch; 9: shovel; 10: buoy (fishing stuff); 11: tray to keep water and a seed; 12: fruit tree stakes; 13: axe; 14: ploughshare; 15: cow and seed; 16: lizzard; 17: grinding grain mortar.

There is a variant of this coin, where there is a small line from left eye of the Sun on obverse towards the nose; is known as "teardrop".


 No teardrop variant Teardrop variant

Also some coins have the inscription that can be read with obverse up, and others with reverse up; so combining teardrop/no teardrop and reading up/down, it makes a total of 4 variants.

Teardrop is not described in main catalogues, but frequently is mentioned in auction sites. Position of edge inscription is rarely described.

Mintmark is placed on edge.

NOTE:
- On 1987, Central Bank of Uruguay countermarked (off centered) 2 000 coins as celebration of Bank's 20th. anniversary;
- On 1997, Central Bank of Uruguay countermarked (centered and colorized) 500 coins as celebration of Bank's anniversary.
- Krause listed countermarked coins on original year, adding letter (KM# 55c and KM# 55d);
- SA did not list them separately, and only added a note explaining the countermarked coins;
- CG listed countermarked coins as variants (original= GC# 96.1; countermarked= CG# 96.2 & CG# 96.3); also lists silver pattern separately (CG# E34)

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC Frequency
1969 So 1 000 2% Casa de Moneda de Chile; Proof
1969 So 497 500 $ 23 $ 23 $ 23 $ 25 87% Casa de Moneda de Chile; with teardrop
1969 So $ 24 $ 25 16% Casa de Moneda de Chile; without teardrop

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Picture 1 of a sold 1000 Pesos (FAO)
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Auction 101
Lot 2859
Internet Archive
18 Nov 2023 Undetermined UNC USD 29.15
(EUR 27.00)
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Picture 1 of a sold 1000 Pesos (FAO)
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Auction 94
Lot 2733
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30 Aug 2023 Undetermined UNC USD 32.39
(EUR 30.00)
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Picture 1 of a sold 1000 Pesos (FAO)
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Auction 77
Lot 1486
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11 Feb 2023 Undetermined UNC USD 32.39
(EUR 30.00)
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Picture 1 of a sold 1000 Pesos (FAO)
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Auction 72
Lot 3076
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21 Dec 2022 Undetermined UNC USD 41.03
(EUR 38.00)
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Picture 1 of a sold 1000 Pesos (FAO)
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Auction 69
Lot 3225
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29 Oct 2022 Undetermined UNC USD 33.47
(EUR 31.00)
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Picture 1 of a sold 1000 Pesos (FAO)
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Auction 61
Lot 1226
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7 Jun 2022 Undetermined UNC USD 24.83
(EUR 23.00)
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Picture 1 of a sold 1000 Pesos (FAO)
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Auction 61
Lot 1227
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7 Jun 2022 Undetermined UNC USD 23.75
(EUR 22.00)
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