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10 Quetzales
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Value | 10 Quetzales |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of General Miguel García Granados at right in intaglio, set against a red and pink guilloche underprint; at left, a vignette of the resplendent quetzal bird is positioned above a Mayan glyph panel, with the numeral '10' within the central guilloche cartouche. The bank title 'BANCO DE GUATEMALA' and 'GUATEMALA, CENTRO AMERICA' run across the top margin, with 'DIEZ QUETZALES' inscribed below the central cartouche and the serial number repeated at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE GUATEMALA GUATEMALA, CENTRO AMERICA DIEZ QUETZALES GENERAL MIGUEL GARCÍA GRANADOS PRESIDENTE DE LA REPÚBLICA DE GUATEMALA APROBACIÓN DE LOS PRINCIPALES CARGOS Y OTRAS LEYES EN VIGOR DURANTE SU GOBIERNO |
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BA International — the late-period trading name of British American Bank Note Company — handled much of Guatemala's printing through the 1990s, a relationship that stretched back decades and outlasted several of the region's more turbulent monetary episodes. By 1998, Guatemala had recently emerged from a peace process ending 36 years of internal armed conflict, and the banking system was under pressure to modernize security infrastructure. The thread and watermark combination on this series was a modest step in that direction, though Guatemala's currency reforms of the early 2000s would soon push the Quetzal toward more sophisticated polymer and hybrid formats.