PARAGUAY
Pick#....................222a
Denomination ....1,000 Guarani
Date......................2004
Condition.............UNC
Comments….......Francisco Solano Lopez on front. Born in 1826, Francisco Solano Lopez became the second and final ruler of the Lopez dynasty. Solano Lopez's miscalculations and ambitions plunged Paraguay into a war with Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. The war resulted in the deaths of half of Paraguay's population and almost erased the country from the map. During the war, Solano Lopez ordered the executions of his own brothers and had his mother and sisters tortured when he suspected them of opposition. Thousands of others, including Paraguay's bravest soldiers and generals, also went to their deaths before firing squads or were hacked to pieces on Solano Lopez's orders. Others saw Solano Lopez as a paranoid megalomaniac, a man who wanted to be the Napoleon of South America, willing to reduce his country to ruin and his countrymen to beggars in his vain quest for glory. Legislative building on reverse.
Printer Thomas De La Rue (TDLR), England.
Guarani are indigenous people living in Paraguay and Bolivia. Guarani is also Dutch for Golden.
Image is not exact note in lot.
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