1 Peso

Guatemala's peso coinage of this period was struck under the liberal reform government of Justo Rufino Barrios, who had seized power in 1871 and aggressively modernized the country's financial infrastructure. The silver peso was central to his effort to stabilize commerce after decades of monetary disorder left over from the Central American Federation's collapse.

KM#200 covers only two years of production before Guatemala transitioned toward new monetary arrangements in the 1880s. The short window of issue keeps surviving examples relatively scarce in any grade.