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Description:
Obverse
José Gervasio Artigas portrait to the right, date below right
Reverse
Puma walking to the left before a radiant sun, below face value. The cougar, (Puma or Felis concolor), was considered absent or extinct from Uruguay. It seems to come back from neighboring Brazil.
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