1 Peso

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.