100 Guaraníes

Features

Issuer	Paraguay
Issuing bank	Central Bank of Paraguay (Banco Central del Paraguay)
Period	Republic (1811-date)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Year	1990
Value	100 Guaraníes (100 PYG)
Currency	Guarani (1944-date)
Composition	Nickel brass (Copper 70%, Zinc 24.5%, Nickel 5.5%)
Weight	10.5 g
Diameter	24.0 mm
Thickness	3.0 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized	17 January 2014
Number	N# 4978
References	KM# 177 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). , Schön# 194 Battenberg Gietl Verlag (publisher). Weltmünzkatalog. Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany (4 volumes).

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Obverse

Name of the country, bust of General José Eduvigis Díaz and year of issue below

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPUBLICA DEL PARAGUAY
GENERAL JOSE.E.DIAZ
1990

Translation:
Republic of Paraguay
General José E. Díaz

Reverse

Value above, ruins of Humaitá

Script: Latin

Lettering:
100
RUINAS DE HUMAITA 1865/70
GUARANIES

Translation:
100 guaraníes
Ruins of Humaitá 1865-1870

Edge

Reeded

Mint

Royal Mint, Llantrisant, United Kingdom (1968-date)

Comments

José Eduvigis Díaz Vera (October 17, 1833 – February 7, 1867) was a celebrated Paraguayan General. Díaz was born in the town of Cerro Verá east of Pirayú in the department of Paraguarí. In 1852 he joined the militia and later led Battalion #40 of the police. He became the police chief in Asunción and first distinguished himself on raids across the Río Paraná at Corrientes in the spring of 1866 during the Paraguayan War. Díaz was the hero of the September 22, 1866 battle of Curupaity, leading a humiliating rout of the allied forces.

Barely four months later, however, on 26 Jan. 1867, a Brazilian shell exploded over General Diaz's canoe while he was fishing in the River Paraguay, outside the camp at Curupayti. President Francisco Solano López visited the wounded Diaz every day. Diaz's leg was amputated by doctors, but he still died on 7 Feb. 1867.

The remains of the old fortress of Humaitá are located on the left side of the Paraguay River, approximately 430 km to the south of Asunción. During the Paraguayan War (1864–1870) this fortress was important because it controlled river access to the capital, Asunción.

Ruins of Humaitá. Only a few vestiges survived bombardment by enemy cannons during the war. One of these was San Carlos Borromeo's church. Carlos Antonio López ordered its construction. It was inaugurated on January 1, 1861. At the time, it was considered one of the most beautiful in the Americas.

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Date			Mintage	G	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1990			35 000 000	$ 0.25	$ 0.25	$ 0.52	$ 0.85	$ 1.00	$ 1.00	$ 1.20		British Royal Mint (UK)

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