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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Comite Bancario de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1899 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company |
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| Obverse description | Horizontally formatted note with the issuer's title 'COMITE BANCARIO DE GUATEMALA' in bold lettering across the upper margin, flanked by large numeral '5' counters at all four corners. The central vignette, executed in fine intaglio, presents two allegorical seated female figures flanking an oval medallion enclosing a quetzal bird, while secondary vignettes in the lower corners depict a sailing vessel at sea (left) and a steam locomotive (right). The lower central field carries the denomination inscription 'Vale por CINCO PESOS' in manuscript-style lettering, with the date 'Junio 22 de 1899' and printed signature lines for DIRECTOR and PRESIDENTE. |
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| Reverse lettering | CINCO PESOS 5 COMITE BANCARIO DE GUATEMALA CINCO CINCO PESOS |
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The Comité Bancario de Guatemala was not a central bank in any conventional sense — it was a clearing arrangement among the country's private commercial banks, formed in the 1890s to coordinate note issuance during a period when Guatemala had no unified currency authority. These 5 Pesos notes were among the instruments that arrangement produced, printed by ABNC in New York on contract.
Guatemala abandoned the Peso for the gold-standard Quetzal in 1925, and most earlier paper was retired and destroyed in the changeover. The S-prefix Pick designation flags this as a private banking issue rather than a state emission.