RARE URUGUAY COIN - 2 CENTESIMOS 1869 A PARIS MINT - XF - KM# 12 🇺🇾

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Issuer
Uruguay
Period
Oriental Republic of Uruguay (1825-date)
Type
Standard circulation coin
Year
1869
Value
2 Centésimos (0.02 UYP)
Currency
Peso (1863-1975)
Composition
Bronze
Weight
10 g
Diameter
30 mm
Thickness
1.2 mm
References
KM# 12, SA# 16, SA# 19
Obverse
Radiating sun with face, country name around, date on exergue.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
REPUBLICA ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY
1869
Engraver: Ernest Paulin Tasset
Reverse
Value in reeded back circle within tied laurel wreath, denomination on ribbon above, mint mark on bottom.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
CENTESIMOS
2
H
TASSET
Engraver: Ernest Paulin Tasset
Edge
Smooth
Mints
A
Paris, France (864-date)
H
Heaton's Mint, Birmingham, United Kingdom (1850-1889)
Comments
Coins with face values 1, 2 and 4 cents, dated Uruguay 1869, with mintmark letter A were minted at Paris Mint on 1869.
Later, 1, 2 and 4 cents Uruguayan coins dated 1869, with mint letter H and Paraguay dated 1870 (with same face values, material and dimensions) were minted on 1870, Uruguay used the creation law year on the coins (same as the previous issue), and Paraguay the minting year.
On the second order, for both countries, the contractor was the company Shaw Hnos. & Co. (Shaw brothers), placed at Montevideo.
The catalog “The Mint, Birmingham, Limited, formerly Ralph Heaton & Sons” shows the coins minted for about 39 countries. On page 42, it shows copy of the letter received from Shaw (signed as “Chas. J. Shaw= Charles J. Shaw), about the coins. This letter confirms the “H” 1869 coins of Uruguay were minted by Heaton, and also explains why Uruguayan  and Paraguayan coins look so similar, and also that “SHAW” showing on Paraguayan coins is not the engraver, as some people thinks, but the contractor of the mintage.
Some authors considered these coins as minted at La Rochelle, France, that also used the “H” letter as mintmark, and it is mentioned at Heritage Auctions on their list for September 15th., 2015 auction# 3042; maybe cause the previous lot was a coin minted at Paris.
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