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1 Quetzal Guatemalan Chamber of Commerce
| Issuer | Guatemala |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | Quetzal (1925-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The central device features a resplendent quetzal bird in flight with wings spread, clutching a bundle in its talons, set within a raised inner circle alongside the denomination '1 Quetzal' in prominent lettering. The circumferential legend 'CAMARA DE COMERCIO DE GUATEMALA' runs along the upper and lateral border in Latin script. The centennial anniversary dates '1894 · 1994 ·' are inscribed in the lower portion of the border, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Guatemalan Chamber of Commerce. |
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Issued to commemorate the centennial of the Guatemalan Chamber of Commerce, founded in 1894 during the long Liberal Reform period that reshaped the country's export economy around coffee. The Chamber was one of several mercantile institutions established as Guatemala integrated more deeply into international commodity markets under presidents Barrios and his successors.
The .900 silver specification follows the old Latin Monetary Union standard — an intentional nod, common in Guatemalan commemoratives of this decade, to a monetary tradition the country never formally joined.