5 Centésimos de Real

Uruguay's first domestic coinage, authorized shortly after independence from Brazil in 1828, was delayed for over a decade by chronic fiscal instability and the devastating Guerra Grande — the civil conflict that drew in Argentine and Brazilian interventions and left Montevideo under siege from 1843 to 1851. These copper pieces were finally struck at the Montevideo mint across multiple emissions, which accounts for the cluster of catalog references reflecting distinct die marriages and planchet variations within the date range.