Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
4 Pesos Fuertes Silver 'Bouvet' Pattern
| Issuer | Paraguay |
|---|---|
| Year | 1867 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A seated allegorical female figure representing Liberty occupies the central field, holding an olive branch symbolising peace in one hand and a sword and scales symbolising justice in the other. The composition is rendered in a classical neoclassical engraving style typical of mid-nineteenth-century pattern coinage. The date 1867 appears in the exergue below the figure. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Paraguay in 1867 was in the third year of the War of the Triple Alliance — the most devastating conflict in South American history, which would ultimately kill the majority of the country's male population. That a silver pattern was being struck at all during this period reflects Francisco Solano López's determination to project the image of a functioning, solvent state even as the country was being systematically destroyed.
The 'Bouvet' attribution references the French engraver responsible for the dies. Patterns of this type never entered circulation — Paraguay lacked both the silver reserves and the mint infrastructure to produce coinage domestically at scale during the war years.