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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 726413, member: 12789&quot;]<img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/paraguay/paraguay500dtl.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is just one of those fantastic notes that just exudes aestheticism with it&#039;s use of fine design coupled with a menagerie of colour evoking amazement that this could have been used as a currency.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/paraguay/paraguay500pesos.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>This lovely note was printed by American Banknote Company in the 1920&#039;s and is a printers proof that was sold off when the company&#039;s archives were sold off.&nbsp; During the time from the 1890&#039;s - 1940&#039;s American Banknote Company was the superior printer for the currencies of the world, their multiple printing pass notes with fine engravings were the envy of German, French, and British security printing companies.&nbsp; Later on the company was eclipsed by Thomas De La Rue, and their printings from the early part of the last century lie testament to a glorious past.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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