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500 Guaranies Guarani value on reverse - FCO printer
| Issuer | Banco Central del Paraguay |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Printer | François-Charles Oberthur, France |
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| Reverse description | Multicolor vignette of the National Merchant Fleet at the port of Asunción, with vessels in harbour including the ship 'Lago Ypoa'. The country name appears at the top of the design, the face value in numerals occupies the lower corners, and the denomination in words is rendered at centre in the Guarani language. The printer's imprint appears in the lower margin. |
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| Protection description | No watermark. |
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Paraguay's 500 Guaraníes series of this period was printed by François-Charles Oberthur in Rennes at a time when the firm was aggressively expanding its portfolio of Latin American central bank contracts. The "FCO" printer's mark on the reverse distinguishes this from earlier runs of the same denomination produced by other security printers, a detail that matters for completeness in any series collection.
Security is limited to a watermark — no security thread, no fluorescent inks — reflecting the relatively modest anti-counterfeiting specification Paraguay contracted for at this face value.