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50 Centimos Fuertes Argentine Occupation
| Issuer | Lezica y Lanús (Proveeduría de Víveres del Ejército) |
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| Year | 1870 |
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| Value | 50 Centavos (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | ASUNCION 187_ LEZICA Y LANÚS PROVEEDURIA DE VIVERES DEL EJERCITO 50 CENTIMOS Fts. VALE POR 50 CENTIMOS Fts. LA PROVEEDURIA del Ejercito pagará al portador y á la vista CINCUENTA CENTIMOS, ó sea a quatro reales fuertes (de 16 en onza de oro). (Translation: Lezica and Lanús Army Nursery supply Worth Fifty Cents Fuertes The Army Supply will pay the bearer and in sight Fifty Cents Fuertes, that is, four reales fuertes (in 1/16 ounces of gold).) |
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Lezica y Lanús was a prominent Buenos Aires merchant house that operated as provisioner to the Argentine army during the 1870 campaign in the Paraguayan interior — a late phase of the War of the Triple Alliance. These notes were issued not by any bank or government treasury but by the army's own supply depot, functioning as a scrip currency to pay soldiers and facilitate procurement in occupied territory where hard coin was scarce or impossible to move.
The firm's commercial standing underwrote the notes' acceptance. Whether they were ever fully redeemed against specie or absorbed as losses in the chaos of postwar demobilization is not well documented.