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1 Peso
| Issuer | El Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1895-1915 |
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| Value | 1 Peso |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on cream stock, the reverse is built around a central guilloche panel bearing "UN PESO" in large capitals, with "EL BANCO DE" at the top and "GUATEMALA" at the base, each within ornate letterpress cartouches. Intricately engraved floral rosettes occupy the left and right fields, and numeral-1 counters anchor both lateral edges, producing a balanced, symmetrical security composition. |
| Reverse lettering | EL BANCO DE UN PESO GUATEMALA Compañía Internacional de Billetes de Banco |
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The Compañía Internacional de Billetes de Banco was a Guatemala City-based printing firm — unusual for the period, when most Latin American banks contracted European or North American security printers. Their domestic production kept costs down but introduced inconsistencies in ink quality across print runs, something collectors notice when comparing examples from different years within this long issue window.
El Banco de Guatemala was a private commercial bank operating under concession, not a central bank. Its note-issuing privileges survived into the early twentieth century only because Guatemala lacked a state monopoly on currency until the Banco Central's establishment in 1926.