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10 Quetzales
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE GUATEMALA SESION DE LA ASAMBLEA NACIONAL LEGISLATIVA DE 1872. DIEZ QUETZALES (Translation: BANK OF GUATEMALA SESSION OF THE NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF 1872. TEN QUETZALES) |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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By the mid-1990s, Banco de Guatemala had been issuing notes through Oberthur's Rennes facility for over a decade, a relationship that gave this series a consistency of paper quality and intaglio depth unusual among Central American issues of the period. The Q10 pick 91 belongs to a long-running design sequence that stretched across multiple printers before Oberthur consolidated the contract — making it worth tracking which printer handled which date ranges when building a complete run.
The security thread on this type is unwindowed, a detail that distinguishes it from later Guatemalan issues that adopted foil-strip technology in subsequent decades.