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The obverse is printed in dark blue and black with red serial numbers on a light underprint. At centre, a seated allegorical female figure is surrounded by vignettes of a harbour scene and agricultural motifs, with the Guatemalan coat of arms in an oval medallion to the left. The bank title BANCO DE OCCIDENTE arches across the top, with the place of issue QUEZALTENANGO, the date 2 de Noviembre de 1921, and the denomination VEINTE PESOS rendered in letterpress below, flanked by numeral 20 counters at left and right. |
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The reverse is printed entirely in blue, with an elaborate guilloche lattice pattern of repeating rosettes filling the field. At centre, the Guatemalan national coat of arms is set within a large engine-turned medallion, encircled by a wreath of laurel. Numeral 20 counters appear at upper left and upper right, with the legend BANCO DE OCCIDENTE QUEZALTENANGO arching above the central vignette and VEINTE PESOS running along the lower margin. |
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Banco de Occidente was a regional Colombian bank headquartered in Cali, one of several private banks authorized to issue currency under the free-banking legislation that had governed Colombia since the 1880s. That system was already dying by 1921 — the Banco de la República was established in 1923 with a note-issuing monopoly, rendering private bank currency obsolete almost immediately. Notes from this late period were often printed in quantity but circulated briefly before being called in.
Waterlow & Sons handled the plates. Colombian private bank issues from this printer are generally well-executed, though the short redemption window after 1923 means surviving examples tend to show light use at most.