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10 Centavos Caja de Conversión
| Issuer | Caja de Conversión de Paraguay |
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| Year | 1874 |
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| Value | 10 Centavos (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | LEY DE 9 DE ENERO DE 1874 REPUBLICA DEL PARAGUAY DECRETO DE 4 DE MARZO DE 1874 LA NACIÓN RECONOCE ESTE BILLETE POR DIEZ CENTAVOS que serán convertidos al portador y á la vista en metálico. POR LA CAJA DE CONVERSIÓN ASUNCIÓN 15 MARZO 1874 (Translation: Law of January 9, 1874 Republic of Paraguay Decree of March 4, 1874 The Nation recognizes this banknote for Ten Centavos that will be converted to the bearer and on demand in cash by the Conversion Fund. Asunción, March 15th, 1874.) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is blank on most examples; some bear a blue oval stamp of the Ministry of Finance and General Treasury applied by hand, which varies in placement and ink intensity between individual notes. |
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Paraguay's Caja de Conversión was established in the wake of the catastrophic War of the Triple Alliance, which had ended in 1870 leaving the country demographically gutted and economically hollowed out. This 10 Centavos note belongs to the earliest postwar attempt to build a functional monetary infrastructure from scratch — a country that had lost an estimated half or more of its prewar population had precious little commerce to back any currency it chose to emit.
Documentation on the specific printer and production details for this series remains sparse in the literature. Pick lists it without confirmed printer attribution, and surviving examples are genuinely uncommon given how thin circulation and banking infrastructure were in 1874 Paraguay.