[1] The trophy was made between 1916 and 1917 at Casa Escasany, a jewelry store in Buenos Aires, for a price of 3,000 Swiss francs at the time, and was donated to the South American Football Confederation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of Argentina.

In the 1990s, the Chilean company Milled began to make the prizes for South American continental tournaments at the club and national team level, located in the Pedro Aguirre Cerda commune in the city of Santiago.

[3] Nicolás Leoz, the president of CONMEBOL, during a brief stay asked a taxi driver if he knew of any place to buy medals for a championship that was being held.

It was delivered by CONMEBOL to the Chile football team, champion of the Copa América Centenario,[8] which was played between 3 and 26 June in ten cities in the United States.

[9] The trophy uses the silhouette of the original cup as inspiration, but includes a new vision: it has gold curves on the Greek urn, to represent 100 years of soccer on the American continent.