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20 Centavos Silver Pattern
| Issuer | Paraguay |
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| Year | 1889 |
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| Value | 20 Centavos (0.20) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features the Sello de Hacienda, the Treasury seal of Paraguay, serving as the central design element within the field. The national motto PAZ Y JUSTICIA (Peace and Justice) arcs along the upper periphery as the primary legend. Below the central motif, the denomination is inscribed as 20 CENTos, with the fineness designation 9 Dos FINO indicating a silver alloy of nine-tenths fineness. The combination of the treasury seal and fineness statement is characteristic of pattern coinage produced for official monetary evaluation purposes. |
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| Reverse lettering | PAZ Y JUSTICIA 20 CENTos 9 Dos FINO (Translation: Peace and justice (National motto of Paraguay) 20 Centavos Nine tenths of pure silver) |
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Paraguay's monetary history in the late 1880s was still recovering from the catastrophic War of the Triple Alliance, which had ended in 1870 and left the country with perhaps 10% of its prewar male population. Pattern coinage from this period reflects repeated attempts to establish a credible national currency, often with designs and specifications proposed to foreign mints — likely Buenos Aires or Paris — that never made it to circulation approval. This particular variant is not catalogued as a standard KM pattern, placing it outside the known sequence and suggesting it may represent a rejected intermediate proposal.