A year or so back, I was working for an elderly man, at the time he was 97, he had traveled the world in the 1930's and 40's, and had quite a collection of notes and coins. Occasionally he would bring some out to show to me, and often times bestow upon me various coins and banknotes. He gave me this Uruguayan one shortly before his death, along with a 1954 Taiwan one yuan, which he had a whole stack of in crisp uncirculated condition, and a few US military payment certificates. But as far as the Uruguay one goes, I could only find two examples on ebay...one was $149, and one was $450. They look exactly the same as mine(one looks to be in worse shape) and have the same printers names on the bottom. The one I have is pretty crisp, but has a few fold marks, I'm just curious as to whether or not these ebay prices are reasonable, and how scarce this note is. Here are some pictures of my Uruguay note. I also include two pics of my taiwan 1954 yuan...I know nothing about the taiwan note..is it scarce, common? rexesq
The Uruguay note catalogs at G/40.00 FINE/150.00 EF/350.00 The Taiwan note catalogs at VG/1.50 VF/4.00 UNC/15.00 The prices are from Pick 11th edition. I do not have the new edition yet.
What a realy lovely note, it looks very French in design :thumb: as for the Taiwan note the design is very reminisant of the older gold unit notes.
Oh, great, thanks so much guys. I've always loved the design of the Uruguay banknote, it is one of my most treasured notes. I really appreciate the help.
rexesq very nice notes! I especially like your note from Uruguay. The note from Uruguay was printed to celebrate the centenary of the constitution of 1830. Printed in France by Bando. The artist where Clemente Serveau and Sebastian Laurent from France and the engravings where made by Gaspe and Piel. The young lady on the front of the note is Adela Herrera de Gutierrez from Uruguay and her likeness also appears on some French notes. Denominations for the centenary notes are 1, 5, and 10 pesos and they printed 1,000,000 one peso notes. Lou
WoW....That's more information than I ever could have hoped for, I truly appreciate it....I was thinking about trying to sell the Uruguay note, and use the proceeds to buy a nice roman coin or two....but I think I'm going to hold on to it for a while, it's such a beautiful note. Thanks again!
