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5 Pesos Banco de Occidente en Quezaltenango
| Issuer | Banco de Occidente en Quezaltenango |
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| Year | 1916-1919 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S176 |
| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on a multicolor underprint with red serial numbers. The central vignette presents an allegorical figure of Commerce and Industry on a dockside setting, surrounded by a hammer, anvil, cogwheel, parcel, compass, and barrel, with a locomotive and vessels rendered in the background. The Guatemalan coat of arms appears at left, while at right a quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) perches above a decorative rosette. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in brown, the reverse is composed of a dense, intricately engraved guilloche framework filling the entire field. At centre, a large ornate rosette medallion bears the bank name in a curved legend encircling the design, flanked symmetrically on each side by crossed torches and scrollwork panels set within elaborate lathe-work borders. Numeral "5" denominators occupy each of the four corners within scalloped guilloche cartouches. The printer's imprint "AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK" appears in small type at the bottom centre. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE OCCIDENTE EN QUEZALTENANGO (Translation: Bank of the West in Quezaltenango) |
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