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2 Centavos
| Issuer | Guatemala |
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| Year | 1932 |
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| Composition | Nickel brass (79% Copper, 20% Zinc, 1% Nickel) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The denomination DOS CENTAVOS DE QUETZAL is rendered in large, bold incuse lettering arranged diagonally across the entire field, with DOS at the top, CENTAVOS in the center, DE below it, and QUETZAL at the bottom. The inscription fills the coin's face in a distinctive typographic layout characteristic of early Guatemalan decimal coinage. A beaded border runs along the coin's rim. |
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Guatemala issued this coin during a period of acute fiscal stress — the Great Depression had collapsed coffee export revenues, the country's economic lifeline, and the Ubico regime was scrambling to stabilize small-denomination circulation. Nickel brass was a deliberate cost-reduction choice over the silver-washed pieces of earlier decades.
KM#250 saw only a single year of production at this composition and size before specifications were revisited.