1/2 Centavo with center dot

Guatemala's postwar coinage reform of the mid-1940s followed the country's 1944 October Revolution, which ousted the Ubico dictatorship and brought a reformist government under Juan José Arévalo to power. The center dot variety — catalogued separately as KM#248.2 — distinguishes this issue from the earlier KM#248.1 striking, a minor die modification whose precise administrative origin is unrecorded but consistent with the small adjustments made during the transitional period of the new mint contracts.