4 Pesos Fuertes Silver 'Bouvet' Pattern

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背面描述	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.
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附加信息	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.

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