1 Quetzal Maya K'iche'

The Maya K'iche' are the largest indigenous group in Guatemala, numbering over a million speakers of K'iche' today and historically centered in the western highlands around Quetzaltenango. This coin was issued as part of Guatemala's broader numismatic program celebrating indigenous peoples and pre-Columbian heritage — a program that runs alongside persistent political tensions over land rights and constitutional recognition of Maya communities that remained unresolved well past this coin's minting date.