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20 000 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 | Blue-grey intaglio print on a multicolour underprint. A vignette of the Paraguayan woman (La Mujer Paraguaya) appears at right, holding a traditional pitcher bearing coat of arms symbols; the issuer title runs along the top and face value appears in both numerals and letters at the corners and centre. Two official coats of arms are positioned below the value, with a vertical red serial number at left and a horizontal black serial number at lower right; a security thread and watermark zone occupy the left field, accompanied by a circle tactile device for the visually impaired and the BCP perfect-printing registration device. The denomination "20 MIL" is printed in green at the upper left corner. |
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| Reverse description | Blue-grey intaglio print on a multicolour underprint. A vignette of the modern Banco Central del Paraguay headquarters building in Asunción occupies the centre and right of the note, while a stylised ñandutí lace guilloche design fills the left field behind the face value numerals. The country name appears along the top, with the denomination in numerals at left, in combined numerals and letters at upper right, and in the Guaraní language in letters along the bottom. |
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Royal Joh. Enschedé has printed Paraguayan banknotes for decades, and this 2013 issue continues a long relationship between the Banco Central and the Haarlem firm. The 20,000 Guaranies denomination sits near the top of Paraguay's circulating series and saw heavy everyday use during a period when inflation had made lower denominations largely inconvenient for routine transactions.
Security is modest for the denomination — watermark and a single thread, without the polymer substrate or windowed threads common on higher-value regional issues of the same period. Brazil and Argentina had already moved more aggressively toward polymer by this point.