50 Centésimos counterfeit
Features
| Location |
Uruguay
 |
|---|---|
| Period |
Oriental Republic of Uruguay (1825-date)
|
| Type | Contemporary counterfeits |
| Year | 1877 |
| Value | 50 Centésimos (0.50 UYP) |
| Currency | Peso (1863-1975) |
| Composition | Pewter |
| Diameter | 33 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Cast |
| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Issued | 1877 |
| Demonetized | 15 September 1917 |
| Number | N# 567178 |
Obverse
Coat of arms, country name around, star below.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
REPUBLICA ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY
★
Translation: Oriental Republic of Uruguay
Engraver: Désiré-Albert Barre
Reverse
Value within wreath
Script: Latin
Lettering:
LIBRE Y CONSTITUIDA
50
CENTESIMOS
A
1877
Translation:
Free and Constitued
50 Cents
Engraver: Désiré-Albert Barre
Mint
| A | Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date) |
Comments
Contemporary counterfeit on N# 4361 
Most counterfeits detected were silver plated, but this never was finished.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| 1877 A | |||||||||||||||
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