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20 Pesos Uruguayos
| Issuer | Banco Central del Uruguay |
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| Year | 2020-2021 |
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| Currency | Peso uruguayo (1993-date) |
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| Obverse description | At left centre, an intaglio vignette of the Allegory of the Homeland Legend (Alegoria de la Leyenda Patria), a winged female figure in classical robes, rendered in dark green on a multicolour guilloche underprint; a facsimile manuscript excerpt from the poet Juan Zorrilla de San Martín's work 'Tabaré' and 'La Leyenda Patria' appears below the vignette at lower left. To the right of centre, a decorative cartouche encloses a quill, scroll and laurel wreath motif, with the denomination 'VEINTE' printed in a dark green intaglio band at lower right; the clear polymer window at far right carries an oval portrait of Juan Zorrilla de San Martín in black and white. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DEL URUGUAY PESOS URUGUAYOS VEINTE MONEDA NACIONAL (Translation: Central Bank of Uruguay / Uruguayan Pesos / Twenty / National Currency) |
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Uruguay's polymer 20 Pesos Uruguayos replaced an earlier cotton-paper version of the same denomination as part of a broader substrate shift the Banco Central began rolling out across its lower denominations in the 2010s. Oberthur Fiduciaire, the French security printer acquired by French company IN Groupe, produced the note — the same firm responsible for several other Latin American polymer issues of the period.
The see-through window is inherent to the biaxially oriented polypropylene substrate rather than a separately applied feature, a distinction worth noting when assessing security element authenticity.