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5 Quetzales
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1983-1988 |
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| Value | 5 Quetzales (5 GTQ) |
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| Obverse description | At right, an intaglio portrait of General Justo Rufino Barrios is set against a guilloche underprint in purple and blue tones, with a quetzal bird in flight above the national coat of arms occupying the left field. The bank title BANCO DE GUATEMALA and GUATEMALA, CENTRO AMERICA run across the top, while the denomination CINCO QUETZALES and numeral 5 appear in the centre. Two facsimile signatures of bank officials are printed below the central vignette, with the serial number at lower right. |
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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.