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20 Pesos Fuertes Caja de Conversión
| Issuer | Caja de Conversión del Paraguay |
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| Year | 1907 |
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| Size | 160 × 85 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio on yellow and green underprint. A vignette of the Legislative Palace (today the Museo Cabildo) in Asunción occupies the center of the note. The face value and issuing authority are stated in full across the upper and lower registers in Spanish. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in olive-green. The Coat of Arms of the Republic of Paraguay is set within a circular medallion at center, with the country name in a legend encircling it; the face value in numerals appears at both the left and right sides of the design. |
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The Caja de Conversión was established by Paraguay in 1907 specifically to stabilize the peso fuerte following decades of monetary chaos rooted in the War of the Triple Alliance, which had left the country's financial infrastructure effectively destroyed. This conversion board held gold and silver reserves against which notes were theoretically redeemable — a peg that held fitfully at best, as the institution lacked the reserves to sustain serious demand.
ABNC's engraved work for Paraguayan issues of this period is characteristically fine, though the series is not among the company's more celebrated commissions. The watermark security is modest for the denomination.