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1 Peso Fuerte Tesoro Nacional
| Issuer | Tesoro Nacional del Paraguay |
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| Year | 1864 |
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| Printer | Perkins Bacon & Co. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is blank, printed on one side only, with faint offset impression visible from the obverse impression through the paper. |
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| Variants | P#25s - Specimen |
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Paraguay's Tesoro Nacional issued this note in 1864, just one year before the country entered the War of the Triple Alliance — the catastrophic five-year conflict against Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay that killed the majority of Paraguay's adult male population and effectively destroyed the national economy. Notes issued in this immediate pre-war period were quickly swept into a wartime fiscal emergency that Francisco Solano López's government tried to paper over with successive issues of increasingly desperate currency.
Perkins Bacon had a long-established relationship with Latin American governments and brought their security printing expertise to this series. The intaglio work is characteristic of their mid-Victorian output.