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500 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de la República del Paraguay |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Currency | Peso (1856-1944) |
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| Obverse description | Dark-gray intaglio print on olive guilloche underprint. A vignette portrait of Don Carlos Antonio López occupies the center-left, while a pastoral scene with cattle appears at right. The face carries multilingual legal tender text within the border inscription. |
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| Reverse lettering | REPUBLICA DEL PARAGUAY PAZ Y JUSTICIA 500 QUINIENTOS PESOS FUERTES (Translation: Republic of Paraguay Peace and Justice Five Hundred Pesos Fuertes) |
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Waterlow & Sons printed this note during one of the more turbulent stretches in Paraguayan monetary history — the country had only recently emerged from the Chaco War (1932–35), a ruinous conflict with Bolivia that drained the treasury and forced repeated suspension of convertibility. The Banco de la República del Paraguay, itself reorganized in 1934 partly to manage war-finance pressures, was still working to stabilize the currency when this issue appeared.
The 500 Pesos Fuertes denomination was the highest in common circulation use for this series, making surviving examples that saw genuine use rather than vault storage relatively uncommon.