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1 Peso El Banco Internacional de Guatemala
| Issuer | El Banco Internacional de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1900-1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a hand holding a cluster of eight national flags, with the circular seal of El Banco Internacional de Guatemala at centre. The denomination UN PESO appears in large bold lettering to the upper left of the vignette, flanked by ornate guilloche rosettes at each corner bearing a stylized monogram. Serial numbers appear vertically along both lateral margins, with fields for date, directorate, and Gerente signatures across the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Banco Internacional de Guatemala pagará al portador en moneda efectiva Un Peso |
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El Banco Internacional de Guatemala was one of several private banks of issue operating under Guatemala's 1874 banking law, which allowed chartered institutions to circulate their own notes alongside — and often in competition with — government-issued currency. The bank struggled through the Estrada Cabrera years, a period when political favoritism heavily skewed which private banks received government deposits and customs revenue concessions, effectively determining which survived.
Pick S153 falls in the "S" private/provincial series, meaning documentation on exact print runs and contracting printers remains incomplete in most standard references. Attribution to a specific security printer for this issue is not firmly established in the literature.