EL SITIO NO. 27 PUBLISHED

Number 27 (June 2018 ) of “El Sitio”, the electronic magazine of the Instituto Uruguayo de Numismatica, has 27 pages and contains three feature articles plus the usual information and news sections. This issue coincides with the 63rd anniversary of the Institute, which was established on June 11th 1955. El Sitio No. 27
Year VII, June 2018, ISSN 1688-8952

In the first article, Hugo Mancebo Decaux recounts the story of the 1844 Silver Peso coin, the first Uruguayan silver coin, and its peculiar indented cord edge milling.

The second article is part of Horacio Morero Ferrero's series on identifying ranch tokens, and focuses on the ten different shearing tokens used by the twin establishments Estancia Los Molinos and Estancia Cerro del Bombero, property of the Gutierrez Zorrilla family of Paysandu.

The third article, by Hugo Mancebo Decaux and Arnaldo Gomensoro, deals with the commemorative medals of the 3rd Pan-American Physical Education Congress, which took place in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1950.

The information section comments on the continuous success of the One Piece, One Story cycle of informal talks, and the very interesting pieces that have been discussed; an introductory talk on numismatics was delivered for the members and the filming crew of a local TV programme doing a piece on collectibles; and lastly, in an open letter to the readers the IUN explains its reasons not to join the newly formed (Latin) American Numismatic Union, UNAN.

The complete issue can be viewed online (in Spanish) here:
http://iunuy.org/

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