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3000 Guaraníes Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
| Issuer | Banco Central del Paraguay |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Currency | Guarani (1944-date) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 1973 - Krupp VDM Stuttgart (Proof) - 1,500 |
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Paraguay's 1973 gold commemorative program was part of a broader wave of collector-targeted issues produced under the Stroessner dictatorship, which used numismatic exports as a modest hard-currency revenue stream. These pieces were never intended for domestic circulation — struck in limited quantities and sold primarily through international coin dealers and Franklin Mint-adjacent distribution networks, they reached Paraguay's own population almost not at all.
Goethe's inclusion alongside figures from global history in the same series reflects no particular Paraguayan connection to the poet — his 1749 Frankfurt birth and authorship of Faust made him a prestige name that would move units in European and North American collector markets.