Catalog
1 Quetzal
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Composition | Polymer |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE GUATEMALA GUATEMALA CENTRO AMERICA UN QUETZAL GERENTE GENERAL PRESIDENTA CANADIAN BANK NOTE GENERAL JOSE MARIA ORELLANA PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA, 1921-1926, EN CUYO GOBIERNO FUE CREADA LA MONEDA QUETZAL AUTORIZACIÓN 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2006 |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE GUATEMALA UN QUETZAL PLACA DE LEYDEN ARA DE TIKAL EDIFICIO DEL BANCO DE GUATEMALA |
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Guatemala's move to polymer for the 1 Quetzal came as part of a broader regional shift toward substrate modernization in the early 2000s, with the Canadian Bank Note Company supplying polymer notes to several Latin American central banks during this period. The transparent window on this denomination was a deliberate choice for the lowest-value circulating note — high-turnover bills suffer the most abuse, and polymer's resistance to moisture and tearing made the 1 Quetzal a logical test case for the technology in Guatemala's humid lowland markets.
CBN's Ottawa facility handled both printing and the optically variable ink application in a single production run.