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3000 Guaraníes Parliament Building
| Issuer | Paraguay |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Currency | Guarani (1944-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DEL PARAGUAY 19 75 3000 GUARANIES (Translation: Republic of Paraguay 19 75 3000 Guaranies) |
| Reverse description | A frontal view of the Paraguayan Parliament Building occupies the central field, depicted in detailed architectural relief showing a classical colonnaded façade with a prominent fountain and statue in the foreground. The legend PARLIAMENT OF PARAGUAY arcs along the upper periphery in evenly spaced capital letters. The design is framed by a plain inner border and a fine milled outer rim, with small decorative stops flanking the inscription. |
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Paraguay's 1975 gold issues were produced under Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship, a period when commemorative coinage served largely as hard-currency generation for a government with limited access to international capital markets. The Parliament Building series was struck primarily for export sale to foreign collectors rather than domestic circulation — few ever entered Paraguay itself.
KM#162 was produced at the Casa de Moneda in limited quantities alongside several denominations in the same issue. Stroessner's regime had opened the new Parliament building in Asunción in 1967, making the eight-year gap to this commemorative a telling detail about how slowly the political apparatus moved to monetize its own architecture.