Catalog
100 000 Guaranies
| Issuer | Banco Central del Paraguay |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Size | 157 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green, yellow-brown and multicolour with a guilloche underprint, the obverse carries a central intaglio vignette of San Roque González de Santa Cruz (1576–1628) with the issuer name BANCO CENTRAL DEL PARAGUAY across the top. Denomination numerals and text appear at all four corners, with a red vertical serial number at left and a black horizontal serial number at right; a security thread runs vertically through the note, and a see-through registration device in the form of a lion is positioned at lower left, flanked by the two official Paraguayan coats of arms. The legal tender clause citing Ley 489 del 29 de Junio de 1995 runs along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | REPUBLICA DEL PARAGUAY 100 MIL 100000 SA SU GUARANI REPRESA DE ITAIPU (Translation: Republic of Paraguay 100 thousand One Hundred Thousand Guaranies (Guaraní language) Itaipu dam) |
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Pick 237 belongs to the high-denomination end of a series introduced as Paraguay's inflation-adjusted response to decades of currency erosion — the 100,000 Guaraní note was worth roughly $23 USD at issue, a figure that illustrates just how far the Guaraní had traveled since its introduction in 1944. The dual printer credit — Crane Currency handling the security substrate and Royal Joh. Enschedé the final printing — reflects a supply arrangement common to several Latin American central banks during this period, splitting substrate production from surface printing across two specialist firms.
Enschedé's involvement in Paraguayan notes stretches back considerably further than this series, giving them a long institutional familiarity with the specifications.