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10 Pesos Tesoro Nacional - Blue type
| Issuer | Tesoro Nacional (National Treasury) of Paraguay |
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| Year | 1865 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue ink in a letterpress style. The Coat of Arms of Paraguay is set within an oval medallion at center, flanked by a standing female figure at left. The face value numeral '10' appears at each lower corner, with the issuing authority and payment obligation text arranged in horizontal registers across the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse shows the note's obverse design in mirror image as seen through the paper, consistent with a blank reverse on a single-sided letterpress printed note. No printed design or lettering is present on this side. |
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Paraguay's Tesoro Nacional notes of 1865 were printed domestically in Asunción under conditions of total wartime isolation. The War of the Triple Alliance had begun that year, cutting Paraguay off from European suppliers — which is precisely why this note exists as a locally produced piece rather than something ordered from Bradbury Wilkinson or another established security printer. The result is rough by contemporary standards: rudimentary typography, uneven ink distribution, and a watermark that varies noticeably between surviving examples.
The "blue type" designation distinguishes it from otherwise similar issues in the series printed in different ink colors — a cataloguing necessity given how little else separates the variants at a glance.