Catalog
5 Quetzales
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1983-1988 |
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| Size | 156 x 67 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE GUATEMALA GUATEMALA, CENTRO AMERICA CINCO QUETZALES 5 GENERAL JUSTO RUFINO BARRIOS |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE GUATEMALA GUATEMALA, CENTRO AMERICA 5 |
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Guatemala's P#67 series spans one of the more violent stretches of the country's civil conflict, with the 1983 issue arriving the same year General Ríos Montt was ousted in a coup and the 1988 notes circulating under the first civilian-to-civilian presidential transfer since 1951. The Banco de Guatemala continued issuing through Giesecke & Devrient throughout this period without interruption — printing contracts with established European houses were not disrupted by domestic political instability.
The series ran for five years with no significant design modification, which is itself notable given how frequently neighboring Central American issuers altered their notes during the same period.