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1 Quetzal Steam Locomotive
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 2019 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | At center, the Guatemalan coat of arms is displayed within a circular frame, flanked by the national legend and face value. Surrounding the central Guatemalan arms, the coats of arms of the other participating nations of the 12th Ibero-American Series are arranged in a ring around the periphery of the field. The legend REPÚBLICA DE GUATEMALA and the independence date LIBERTAD 15 DE SETIEMBRE DE 1821 appear along the border, with the denomination 1 QUETZAL positioned below the central shield. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DE GUATEMALA LIBERTAD 15 DE SETIEMBRE DE 1821 1 QUETZAL (Translation: Republic of Guatemala Liberty 15th of September 1821) |
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Guatemala's quetzal banknote series has long featured the iconic Baldwin steam locomotive — a reference to the railway infrastructure financed largely by United Fruit Company concessions in the early twentieth century, infrastructure that became deeply entangled with the 1954 CIA-backed coup that overthrew Jacobo Árbenz. This coin belongs to a collector-oriented commemorative program run by Banco de Guatemala drawing on that same iconographic tradition.
KM#297 is a modern bullion-adjacent issue with limited independent numismatic literature; mintage figures for the series have not been widely published.