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100 Pesos Fuertes Banco Nacional del Paraguay
| Issuer | Banco Nacional del Paraguay |
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| Year | 1886 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue, the reverse is organised around dense lathe-work guilloche panels flanking a central rectangular vignette of a seated female figure writing on a scroll, an allegory of Commerce. Large bold numeral "100" appears within ornate guilloche frames at left and right of the central vignette, with the bank title distributed across upper and lower cartouches. |
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| Protection description | No watermark. |
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The Banco Nacional del Paraguay had a short and troubled existence, established in 1871 with Brazilian capital following the catastrophic War of the Triple Alliance, which had killed roughly half the country's pre-war population and obliterated any functioning financial infrastructure. By the time this note was printed in 1886, the bank was operating in a country still struggling to reconstitute a basic commercial economy. The American Bank Note Company had by then become the default printer for Latin American institutions that wanted something counterfeit-resistant and internationally credible.
The bank collapsed in 1890, making this a narrow issue window. Notes from the series are rarely encountered today.