Catalog
5 Pesos Fuertes Argentine Occupation
| Issuer | Proveeduría de Víveres del Ejército (Lezica y Lanús) |
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| Year | 1870 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S184 |
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| Obverse lettering | CINCO PESOS 5 PROVEEDURIA DE VIVERES DEL EJERCITO LEZICA Y LANÚS - POR 5 PESOS Fts. CINCO La Proveeduria del Ejercito pagará al portador á la vista CINCO PESOS FUERTES de 16 en onza de oro. ASUNCION (Translation: Five Pesos Army Provisions Supply Lezica and Lanús - For 5 Pesos Fuertes Five The Army Supply will pay the bearer on sight Five Pesos Fuertes at 16 to the ounce of gold. Asuncion) |
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| Protection description | No watermark. |
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The Proveeduría de Víveres del Ejército was a private provisioning firm — Lezica y Lanús — contracted to supply the Argentine army during the occupation of Paraguay following the War of the Triple Alliance. These notes were issued as a parallel scrip currency to pay soldiers and cover field expenses in occupied Asunción, where conventional banking infrastructure had been obliterated by five years of war that had killed an estimated 60–70% of Paraguay's population.
Private contractor scrip of this kind rarely survived the campaign. Most circulated hard and were redeemed or simply discarded once the occupation wound down.