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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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| Currency | Guarani (1944-date) |
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| Obverse description | Blue-gray on multicolor underprint with guilloche patterning. The Coat of Arms of Paraguay is positioned to the left, with an intaglio portrait vignette of General Bernardino Caballero to the right. The issuer name arches across the top, with the face value numeral at centre and repeated in the lower corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | REPUBLICA DEL PARAGUAY FLOTA MERCANTE DEL ESTADO PO SA GUARANI FRANÇOIS-CHARLES OBERTHUR (Translation: Republic of Paraguay Merchant Fleet of the State Five hundred Guaranies (in Guarani language)) |
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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.