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1 Centavo
| Issuer | Guatemala |
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| Year | 1932-1949 |
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| Value | 1 Centavo (0.01 GTQ) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE GUATEMALA LIBERTAD 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1821 1934 (Translation: Republic of Guatemala Liberty 15th of September, 1821) |
| Reverse description | The reverse bears the denomination inscription arranged in three bold lines across the full field, reading UN CENTAVO DE QUETZAL in large incuse lettering with distinctive decorative serifs. The text fills the coin's interior in an arc-and-descending arrangement, with UN at the top, CENTAVO curving across the centre, DE in the middle field, and QUETZAL along the lower arc. The design is plain and typographic with no additional motifs, framed by a continuous milled border. |
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Guatemala's centavo coinage of this period was produced under significant fiscal pressure — the country had defaulted on its external debt in the 1930s and operated with severe budget constraints throughout the Ubico dictatorship. The nickel brass alloy adopted here was a deliberate economy measure, replacing earlier bronze compositions as global copper prices made traditional cent-sized coinage increasingly expensive to produce.
The series ran across two distinct political periods: the authoritarian stability of Jorge Ubico's regime and its abrupt collapse in 1944, followed by the reformist governments of the October Revolution.