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| Emittent | Banco del Paraguay y Rio de la Plata |
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| Jahr | 1889 |
| Typ | Local banknote |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Black intaglio on green guilloche underprint. Portrait vignette of H. Ponzini at left, a cherub vignette at center left, and the Paraguayan Coat of Arms at right. The note carries the full text of the authorizing law of June 25, 1889, with the issue date of December 26, 1889 at Asunción. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Printed in dark blue. The design is dominated by elaborate lathe-work guilloche patterns throughout. A large oval medallion at left encloses a decorative numeral 2, while a smaller oval counter at right repeats the numeral. The bank name is inscribed in a rectangular panel at upper center, the denomination DOS PESOS FUERTES in a central panel, and Y RIO DE LA PLATA in a lower panel. The imprint of the American Bank Note Company, New York appears at the bottom margin. |
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| Anmerkungen |
The Banco del Paraguay y Rio de la Plata was a private commercial bank operating under concession during Paraguay's post-war reconstruction period — the country had lost the majority of its adult male population in the War of the Triple Alliance, which ended in 1870, and was still rebuilding viable financial institutions nearly two decades later. The bank held note-issuing privileges alongside the Banco Nacional, a coexistence that generated persistent instability in Paraguay's circulating currency throughout the 1880s.
ABNC's involvement was typical for South American private banks of the period seeking credibility through foreign printing — the watermarked paper provided a basic deterrent against local counterfeiting at a time when enforcement capacity was essentially nonexistent.