50 000 Guaranies

Paraguay's central bank has contracted multiple printers for the same series simultaneously on numerous occasions, and this 50,000 Guaraní note is a clear example — both Giesecke & Devrient in Leipzig and Oberthur Fiduciaire in France produced this denomination concurrently. Identifying which press produced a given specimen typically requires examining the printer's imprint in the lower margin, as the two firms' outputs are otherwise nearly identical to the untrained eye.

The 50,000 Guaraní denomination was introduced as inflation steadily eroded the utility of lower values — by the mid-2000s, the Guaraní had lost so much ground against the dollar that this note represented barely ten U.S. dollars at prevailing exchange rates.