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1 Peso Fuerte Caja de Conversión

Emittent Caja de Conversión del Paraguay
Jahr 1903
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Währung Peso (1856-1944)
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Vorderseitenbeschreibung Black on green underprint. A central vignette portrays a woman wearing a straw hat, flanked by allegorical figures on either side. The serial number appears at upper right on variety P#106a or at bottom center on variety P#106b.
Vorderseitenlegende REPÚBLICA DEL PARAGUAY LA NACION RECONOCE ESTE BILLETE POR UN PESO FUERTE QUE PAGARÁ CONFORME Á LA LEY DE 14 DE JULIO DE 1903.
(Translation: Republic of Paraguay The Nation recognizes this note for One Peso Fuerte That will pay according to the Law of July 14th., 1903.)
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The Caja de Conversión was established by Paraguay in 1899 specifically to stabilize a currency that had collapsed catastrophically during the 1890s financial crisis — the peso fuerte had by then been effectively replaced in daily transactions by the peso corriente at wildly inflated exchange rates. These notes were the conversion agency's attempt to anchor a new monetary baseline, backed in theory by metallic reserves that were, in practice, never fully adequate.

ABNC printed the series with their characteristic security engraving standards. Paraguay was a small and economically precarious client for the New York firm, and the 1903 issue was one of several Latin American emergency stabilization contracts the company handled in the same period.