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5 Pesos Fuertes Argentine Occupation
| Issuer | Proveeduría de Víveres del Ejército (Lezica y Lanús) |
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| Year | 1870 |
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| Size | 165 × 84 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black on blue underprint. Two allegorical female figures seated at upper center-left flank the central text panel, with the Army Coat of Arms vignette at upper left. The note bears letterpress text in Spanish detailing the obligation to pay the bearer five pesos fuertes at the rate of 16 to the ounce of gold, issued at Asunción during the Argentine occupation of Paraguay. |
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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.