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25 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Internacional de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1917-1925 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE GUATEMALA Pagará al portador en moneda efectiva VEINTE Y CINCO PESOS GUATEMALA SERIE DIRECTORES DE TURNO GERENTE AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
| Reverse description | Printed in brown intaglio, the reverse is dominated by a large central vignette of a steam locomotive advancing toward the viewer on a railway track, rendered in fine engraved detail. The denomination numeral 25 is repeated in two large circular guilloche medallions flanking the vignette at left and right. The bank name is split across the top and bottom margins reading BANCO and INTERNACIONAL DE GUATEMALA respectively, set within an elaborate lathe-work border. |
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The Banco Internacional de Guatemala operated as one of several private note-issuing banks that Guatemala permitted to circulate currency before the government moved to consolidate issuance under the Banco Central in 1926. This note falls squarely in the transitional period when that consolidation was being debated and legislated, meaning later dates in the 1917–1925 range were likely among the last the Internacional was authorized to print.
ABNC produced the plates in New York under their standard contract arrangement with Central American banks — engraved intaglio on cotton stock, with serial numbering and date completion sometimes handled separately upon delivery to Guatemala City.