Uruguay - 1000 Pesos 1969 FAO

Issuer: Uruguay 
Period: Oriental Republic of Uruguay (1825-date)
Type: Circulating commemorative coin
Years: 1969
Mint: Santiago
Mintage: 497,000
Grade: AU
Value: 1000 Pesos (1000 UYP)
Currency: Peso (1863-1975)
Composition: Silver (.900)
Weight: 24.9 g
Diameter: 37 mm
Thickness: 2.5 mm
Shape: Round
Orientation: Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized: April 4, 1972
References: KM# 55, SA# 98, CG# 96.1, Y# 53

Commemorative issue:
FAO

Obverse:
Stylized radiant sun with face.

Lettering:
- URUGUAY -
MIL PESOS

Translation:
Uruguay
One thousand Pesos

Engraver: Francisco Matto Vilaró.

Reverse:
Assorted stylized designs within circle (See coments below).

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:

Lettering: REPUBLICA ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY So.

Translation: Oriental Republic of Uruguay So (Santiago mintmark).

Mints:
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.

Reference : KM# 55, SA# 98, CG# 96.1, Y# 53

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Collection : South & Central America coins