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10 Quetzales
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Value | 10 Quetzales |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE GUATEMALA GUATEMALA, CENTRO AMERICA DIEZ QUETZALES 10 GERENTE GENERAL PRESIDENTE GENERAL MIGUEL GARCIA GRANADOS PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA 1871 1873 REDACTO LA CONSTITUCION DE LA REPUBLICA Y OTRAS LEYES EN VIGOR |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE GUATEMALA DIEZ QUETZALES 10 ASAMBLEA NACIONAL CONSTITUYENTE |
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Guatemala's 10 Quetzal denomination has been issued continuously in various forms since the 1940s, but by 2003 the series had settled into a long run of Oberthur-produced notes that changed little in security specification from year to year. The security thread and watermark combination here was already considered minimal by contemporary central bank standards — Guatemala was notably slower than neighboring Central American issuers to adopt polymer or more sophisticated optical features.
Oberthur Fiduciaire's Chantepie facility handled a substantial portion of Latin American production during this period, making this note one of many regional issues sharing a common French print origin.