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50 Centavos Fuertes Caja de Conversión
| Issuer | Caja de Conversión del Paraguay |
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| Year | 1907 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black ink on green underprint. A vignette of helmeted Athena appears at left, facing right, rendered in intaglio style. The country name is inscribed across the top, with the face value expressed in numerals at all four corners and in both numerals and letters to the right of the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green. The Coat of Arms of the Republic of Paraguay is centered within a circular guilloche medallion, with the country name arranged in a legend around its perimeter. The face value in numerals appears on both lateral sides of the central design. |
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Paraguay's Caja de Conversión was established in 1907 specifically to stabilize the peso fuerte after decades of monetary chaos following the War of the Triple Alliance, which had effectively wiped out the country's pre-war financial infrastructure. This 50 Centavos Fuertes note belongs to the institution's inaugural issue — the first organized attempt at a conversion-backed currency Paraguay had seen since the 1870s.
ABNC was the dominant supplier for South American government paper at this period, and the Paraguayan account was relatively small. Low face value fractional notes like this one circulated hard and survived poorly.