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1/2 Quetzal 1955/56
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1955-1956 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 1/2 Banco de Guatemala 1/2 Guatemala Centro America Cincuenta Centavos De Quetzal Autorización de 5 Enero 1955 1/2 Ermita Del Cerrito del Carmen 1/2 Presidente Gerente Presidente Del Tribunal Y.C. De CTAS (Translation: 1/2 Bank of Guatemala 1/2 50 Centavos of a Quetzal Guatemala Central America Authorization 5 January 1955 1/2 Hermitage of Cerrito del Carmen 1/2 President Manager Chief Justice Y.C. From CTAS) |
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| Reverse lettering | Banco de Guatemala Cincuenta Centavos De Quetzal Paisaje de Chichicastenango (Translation: Bank of Guatemala Fifty Centavos of a Quetzal Landscape of Chichicastenango) |
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Waterlow & Sons had been printing Guatemalan banknotes since at least the 1920s, and by the mid-1950s the relationship was well established — though the firm itself was in its final decade, absorbed by De La Rue in 1961. The half-quetzal denomination survived into this period largely because the quetzal had maintained its one-to-one parity with the US dollar since 1925, a monetary anchor that actually made fractional denominations more useful in daily commerce than they would otherwise have been.
Pick 29 is the last series to carry Waterlow's name on Guatemalan notes before the printing contract changed hands.