1 Centesimo Pattern

Features

Issuer Uruguay
Period Oriental Republic of Uruguay (1825-date)
Type Pattern
Year 1869
Value 1 Centésimo (0.01 UYP)
Currency Peso (1863-1975)
Composition Gold
Weight 9.5 g
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Demonetized 1869
Number
N#
86915
References KM# Pn7
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.

Obverse

Radiating sun with face, country name around, date below.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPUBLICA ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY
1869

Reverse

Value in circle within wreath

Script: Latin

Lettering:
CENTESIMO
1
A
TASSET

Mint

A Heaton and Sons / The Mint Birmingham (Heaton and Sons / The Mint Birmingham Limited), United Kingdom (1850-2003)

Comments

Coins with face values 1, 2 and 4 cents, dated Uruguay 1869, with mintmark letter A were minted at Paris Mint on 1869.
Later, 1, 2 and 4 cents Uruguayan coins dated 1869, with mint letter H and Paraguay dated 1870 (with same face values, material and dimensions) were minted on 1870, Uruguay used the creation law year on the coins (same as the previous issue), and Paraguay the minting year.
On the second order, for both countries, the contractor was the company Shaw Hnos. & Co. (Shaw brothers), placed at Montevideo.

The catalog “The Mint, Birmingham, Limited, formerly Ralph Heaton & Sons” shows the coins minted for about 39 countries. On page 42, it shows copy of the letter received from Shaw (signed as “Chas. J. Shaw= Charles J. Shaw), about the coins. This letter confirms the “H” 1869 coins of Uruguay were minted by Heaton, and also explains why Uruguayan and Uruguayan coins look so similar, and also that “SHAW” showing on Paraguayan coins is not the engraver, as some people thinks, but the contractor of the mintage.
Some authors considered these coins as minted at La Rochelle, France, that also used the “H” letter as mintmark, and it is mentioned at Heritage Auctions on their list for September 15th., 2015 auction# 3042; maybe cause the previous lot was minted at Paris.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1869 A Pattern - Rare

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