Catalog
25 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1905-1925 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a uniform olive-green tone and consists entirely of dense lathe-work guilloche ornamentation arranged in a symmetrical scrollwork framework. The denomination numeral "25" appears at the left and right margins, while the central cartouche carries the inscription "Veinticinco Pesos" in large script, with the bank name "EL BANCO DE" arching across the top and "GUATEMALA" along the lower arc, all surrounded by elaborate interlocking rosette and engine-turned patterns. |
| Reverse lettering | EL BANCO DE GUATEMALA Veinticinco Pesos 25 |
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Banco de Guatemala was one of several competing private banks of issue operating in Guatemala during the early twentieth century — a chaotic plural banking system that the government finally collapsed into a single state bank when the Banco Central de Guatemala was established in 1926. This note falls squarely in the terminal years of that arrangement, when confidence in private bank paper was already deteriorating under political and fiscal pressure.
American Bank Note Company handled production throughout the series, working from New York. ABNC's Guatemalan commissions from this period are reasonably well documented in their archive records, though precise print runs for individual denominations are not publicly established.