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1 Peso
| Issuer | Guatemala |
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| Year | 1879-1889 |
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| Currency | Peso (1859-1912) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE GUATEMALA 30 DE JUNIO DE 1871 UN PESO (Translation: Republic of Guatemala 30-Jun-1871 One Peso) |
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Guatemala's peso coinage of this period was produced under significant monetary pressure following the Liberal Revolution of 1871, which ousted the Conservative government and set Justo Rufino Barrios on a path of forced modernization. The Casa de Moneda in Guatemala City struck these issues to a standard aligned with the Latin Monetary Union specifications — a deliberate signal to European trading partners rather than a domestic necessity.
Barrios was assassinated in 1885 at the Battle of Chalchuapa, mid-series, yet the coinage design continued unchanged under his successors through 1889.