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10 Quetzales
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Reference(s) | P#89 |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE GUATEMALA SESION DE LA ASAMBLEA NACIONAL LEGISLATIVA DE 1872 DIEZ QUETZALES 10 |
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| Protection description | the Resplendent Quetzal visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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| Comments |
The Banco de Guatemala transitioned to the Canadian Bank Note Company for much of its modern production, a relationship that brought consistent intaglio quality to the quetzal series through the 1990s. By 1995, Guatemala's banking system had survived decades of monetary stress — including the inflationary pressures of the 1980s civil conflict period — and this issue circulated during a relatively stable phase following structural adjustment programs negotiated with the IMF earlier that decade.
P#89 is part of a long-running series format that saw incremental security upgrades rather than full redesigns. The security thread on this issue is a simple embedded strip, predating the more sophisticated windowed threads that would appear in later Guatemalan issues.