Catalog
1 Céntimo
| Issuer | Paraguay |
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| Year | 1944-1950 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A stylized five-petaled flower, likely a jasmine blossom, occupies the central field, its petals rendered in low relief with a granular, dotted texture filling the floral head. The design is enclosed within a raised inner border. The circular legend REPUBLICA DEL PARAGUAY runs along the upper periphery, with the date flanked by raised dots positioned at the lower rim. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Paraguay's centimo coinage of this period was issued under the Colorado Party's consolidating grip on power following the violent political upheavals of the 1947 civil war. Aluminium bronze was the pragmatic choice for small-denomination coins across Latin America in the 1940s, offering durability and resistance to the humid subtropical conditions that ate through copper-heavy alloys with brutal efficiency in the Río de la Plata basin.