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5 Centavos
| Issuer | Republic of Guatemala |
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| Year | 1950-1959 |
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| In circulation to | 6 January 1997 |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE GUATEMALA - 0.720 - 1956 - (Translation: Republic of Guatemala) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Guatemala's silver minor coinage survived into the 1950s largely by institutional inertia — most neighboring republics had abandoned silver for small denominations well before mid-century. The alloy here, 720 fine, was the same standard the country had used for fractional silver since the 1920s, a deliberate continuity that reflected the Banco de Guatemala's conservative monetary policy in the years following the 1944 revolution that ousted Jorge Ubico.
These were among the last silver 5-centavo pieces Guatemala would strike before the denomination moved to cupro-nickel.