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Paraguay banknotes
Paraguay paper money catalog and Paraguayan currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Spanish currency, till 1818
  • Argentina currency, legal tender till 1943
  • Peso = 8 Reales = 16 Medios = 32 Cuartillos, 1818- 1870
  • Peso = 100 Centesimos, 1870-1881
  • Peso = 100 Centavos, from 1881-1944
  • Guarani = (100 Pesos) = 100 Centimos, from 1944

• For Argentina notes, legal tender in Paraguay till 1943 see:
  • Argentina

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Pick #	Date
		Republic
1-4	(1856)	1/2, 4 Reales, 1, 2 pesos
5	(1859)	1 real
6	(1859)	1 peso
7-14	(1860)	1/2, 1, 2, 4 Reales, 1, 2, 3, 5 pesos
15	(1861)	4 pesos
16-17	(1862)	4, 5 pesos
18-26	(1865)	1, 2, 4 Reales, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 pesos
27-30	(1865)	3, 4, 5, 10 pesos
31-33	(1868)	3, 4, 5 pesos
34-36	1870	1, 2, 4 Reales
37-39	1870	50 Centesimos, 1, 5 pesos
41-47	1871	1/2, 1, 2, 4 Reales, 1, 5, 10 pesos
48-52	1874	10, 20, 50 centavos, 1, 5 pesos
60-67	1875	5, 20 centavos, 10, 20 pesos
87-94	1894	50 centavos, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 pesos
95-104	1899	50 centavos, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 pesos
105-14	1903	50 centavos, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 pesos
115-24	1907	50 centavos, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 pesos
125-36	1912	2, 5, 10, 50, 50, 100, 100, 200, 500 pesos; ovpt
137-42	1916	50 centavos, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 pesos
143-48	1903	5, 10, 50, 100, 200, 500 pesos
149-55	1920-23	5, 10, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1.000 pesos
156-60	1907	5, 10, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1.000 pesos
161-62	1907	1.000, 1.000 pesos
163-64	1920-23	5, 10 pesos
165-70	1923	50, 50, 100, 100 500, 1.000 pesos
171-76	(1943)	50 Centimos, 1, 5, 5, 10 Guaranies; ovpt
178-84	1943	1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 Guaranies
185-91	1952	1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 Guaranies
192-203	1952 (1963)	1, 1, 5, 5, 10, 50, 100, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000, 10.000 Guaranies
205-10	1952 (1982)	100, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000, 50.000 Guaranies
211	1952 (1994)	50.000 Guaranies
212-13	1952 (1995)	500, 1.000 Guaranies
214-19	1995-2003	1.000, 5.000, 10.000, 50.000, 50.000, 100.000 Guaranies
220	2000-3	5.000 Guaranies
221	2002	1.000 Guaranies; commemorative issue "50 Anniversary Banco Central del Paraguay"
222-25A	2004-11	1.000, 5.000, 10.000, 20.000, 50.000 Guaranies
226-7	2004-5	100.000, 100.000 Guaranies
228-33	2007-13	2.000, 5.000, 10.000, 20.000, 50.000, 50.000, 100.000 Guaranies
234	2011	5.000 Guaranies
235-237	2013	20.000, 50.000, 100.000 Guaranies
A238-240	2015	10.000, 20.000, 50.000, 100.000 Guaranies

		Collector Series
CS1	(1979)	100, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000 Guaranies; specimen (Franklin Mint)

		PARAGUAYAN PRIVATE BANKS
		- Banco de Comercio
s102-10	1886	1.50, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 pesos
		- Banco del Paraguay
s111-9	1879-82	5, 10, 20, 50 centavos, 20 pesos
s121-9	1882	5, 10, 20, 50 centavos, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 pesos
		- Banco Nacional del Paraguay
s141-52	1886	5, 10, 20, 50 centavos, 1, 2, 5, 10, 50, 100, 200 pesos
		- Banco del Paraguay y Rio de la Plata
s161-8	1889	1.25, 1.25, 2, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 pesos

		MILITARY
		- Lezica y Lanus (Army Supplies), Argentine Occupation
s181-5	187-	50 Centimos, 1, 5, 10 pesos