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50 Centimos Fuertes Argentine Occupation
| Issuer | Lezica y Lanús (Proveeduría de Víveres del Ejército) |
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| Year | 1870 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted dark-blue paper reverse, bounded by a plain blind-ruled border frame visible through the stock, with no text, vignette, or overprint of any kind. |
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| Protection description | No watermark. |
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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.