10 Reales Silver Pattern

Features

Issuer Paraguay
Issuing entity Tesoro Nacional de la República
Period Republic (1811-date)
Type Pattern
Year 1854
Value 10 Reales
Currency Paraguayan Real (1845-1856)
Composition Silver
Weight 20.737 g
Diameter 37 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Number
N#
225550
References KM# Pn1,
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States.
And 5 more volumes.
M# 1
Miguel Ángel Pratt Mayans; 2013. Catálogo de monedas y ensayos de la República del Paraguay. M. A. Pratt Mayans, Asunción, Paraguay.

Obverse

Name of the country, one of the two national coats of arms (Sello de Hacienda) with national motto and denomination below

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPUBLICA DEL PARAGUAY
PAZ Y JUSTICIA
10 Rs

Translation:
Republic of Paraguay
Peace and Justice (National motto of Paraguay)
10 Reales

Engraver: Louis-Charles Bouvet

Designer: Louis-Charles Bouvet

Reverse

Seated woman (Liberty) with symbols of peace (olive branch) and justice (sword and scales) with year of issue below

Script: Latin

Lettering: 1854

Engraver: Louis-Charles Bouvet

Designer: Louis-Charles Bouvet

Edge

Plain

Mint

Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date)

Comments

Catálogo de Monedas y Ensayos de la República del Paraguay. Miguel Angel Pratt Mayans, 2013 (M1), KM-Pn1, Peña-7 (var.), SP55 PCGS. Paris mint.

Rare and classic paraguayan pattern engraved by Louis-Charles Bouvet - his signature "BOUVET F(ECIT)" or "Fabricated by Bouvet" appears at 4 o'clock on the date side. This piece is struck on silver-plated tin or white metal. Silver examples are extremely rare, and the cataloguer has been unable to confirm any specimen, since the examples held in the ANS from the Herz collection (referenced as Herz 150 and 151) show values for both the weight (20.737 and 19.833 grams respectively) and specific gravity (7.652 and 7.516 respectively) that appear incompatible with a 38 mm silver crown of normal thickness. Nevertheless, silver examples were indeed very probably struck as shown by a little known almost contemporary reference: the "Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, gravure, litographie et architecture...", a catalog of the artistic items exposed on May 15, 1855 at the Exposition Universelle of that year, lists Bouvet's works under # 4259. Apart from French medals and pattern, it lists patterns of Spanish coinage in gold and silver made for the 1852 Salon, and "gold and silver patterns of the coinage of Paraguay".

Estimated value: USD 2800
Extremely Rare

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1854 

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