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1 Peso
| Issuer | Comite Bancario de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1899 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The upper margin bears the issuer title 'COMITE BANCARIO DE GUATEMALA' in bold letterpress, with the date '15 de Abril de 1899' at upper right. The central field presents the Guatemalan coat of arms flanked by two seated allegorical female figures amid maritime and classical motifs in fine intaglio engraving, with oval vignettes in the lower corners — a steamship at left and a steam locomotive at right. Below the central imagery, the denomination inscription reads 'Vale por UN PESO de recibo en todas las oficinas de recaudacion i pago de la Nacion,' accompanied by manuscript signatures and a handwritten countersignature. |
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| Obverse lettering | COMITE BANCARIO DE GUATEMALA 15 de Abril de 1899 Guatemala Vale por UN PESO de recibo en todas las oficinas de recaudacion i pago de la Nacion 1 No. |
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The Comité Bancario de Guatemala was a short-lived coordinating body established to manage the chaotic plurality of private bank emissions that had accumulated in Guatemala by the late nineteenth century. Multiple banks of issue were operating simultaneously, each printing their own notes, and the resulting confusion prompted this attempt at consolidated oversight — though it never translated into a true central banking structure.
ABNC's involvement is unsurprising given their near-monopoly on quality Latin American banknote printing at the time. Pick 191 is scarce; the Comité itself did not survive long enough to generate large print runs.