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4 Reales Tesoro Nacional
| Issuer | Tesoro Nacional de la República del Paraguay |
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| Year | 1856 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 4 REALES Nº REPUBLICA DEL PARAGUAY EN EL TESORO NACIONAL DE LA República se pagará al portador de este la cantidad de CUATRO REALES valor recebido. (Translation: Four Reales Republic of Paraguay In the National Treasury of Republic will pay the bearer Four Reales paid amount.) |
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Paraguay's 1856 issues were produced under the government of Carlos Antonio López, whose administration maintained one of the most isolated and state-controlled economies in nineteenth-century South America. The Tesoro Nacional functioned not as a central bank but as a direct instrument of the executive, and these notes circulated in an economy where foreign trade was heavily restricted and domestic commerce operated largely on government terms.
Printed locally in Asunción — unusual for a Latin American state of this period, most of which relied on European printers — the crude production quality reflects the limits of what was available in a deliberately insular country. No engraved plates from London or Paris; whatever the state press could manage was what circulated.