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150 Guaraníes Albrecht Dürer
| Issuer | Banco Central del Paraguay |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | The Paraguayan national arms occupy the central field, depicting a five-pointed star radiating sunbeams and encircled by a wreath of palm and olive branches tied with a ribbon at the base. The legend REPUBLICA DEL PARAGUAY arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 150 GUARANIES is inscribed at the lower field. The date is split to either side of the coat of arms, reading 19 to the left and 73 to the right. The entire design is contained within a raised beaded border. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DEL PARAGUAY 19 73 150 GUARANIES (Translation: Republic of Paraguay 19 73 150 Guaranies) |
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Paraguay's 1973 silver commemorative program was an unusually ambitious undertaking for a landlocked South American nation with no particular connection to European Renaissance art. The series was produced primarily for the collector export market under the Stroessner government, which actively courted foreign currency revenue through numismatic contracts with European minting firms during the early 1970s.
Dürer died in Nuremberg in 1528, and his 1471 birth year places this issue near the 502nd anniversary — an interval that suggests the series was assembled thematically rather than around any precise historical milestone.