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50 Centésimos
| Issuer | Uruguay |
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| Year | 1960 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Uruguay's 1960 coinage reforms were tied directly to the country's deepening fiscal crisis under the second Batllista governments, as chronic inflation eroded the purchasing power of earlier silver issues and forced a practical shift to base metal for fractional denominations. The centésimo, once struck in silver, had effectively become a bookkeeping unit by mid-century.
KM#41 ran through the early 1960s before inflation rendered even copper-nickel 50-centésimo pieces economically marginal — a trajectory that ended with the 1975 peso nuevo revaluation wiping out the old centésimo denominations entirely.