NEW BOOK ABOUT URUGUAYAN COINS

TITLE: THE FAKE PESO IN THE 1895 COINS OF THE REPUBLICA ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY.

AUTHOR: RAMON RODRIGUEZ HERNANDEZ, MEMBERSHIP OF THE INSTITUTO URUGUAYO DE NUMISMATICA. OCTOBER 2012.

The book has 48 pages and 35 color pictures, with comments and documents of that period of time. It presents varieties of the fake Pesos as well as some interesting anecdotes of counterfeiting occurred in the city of Salto, in the north-west region of Uruguay.

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