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5 Quetzales
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1993-1995 |
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| Value | 5 Quetzales (5 GTQ) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of General Justo Rufino Barrios, President of Guatemala 1873-1885, at right centre against a light guilloche underprint; the numeral 5 appears at left alongside a small Maya mask vignette, with two facsimile signatures below — Gerente and Presidente de la Junta Monetaria. The bank title BANCO DE GUATEMALA and GUATEMALA CENTRO AMERICA are printed across the top in letterpress. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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The Banco de Guatemala transitioned its note production to the Canadian Bank Note Company during a period when several Latin American central banks were quietly consolidating their printing contracts with North American security printers. CBN had been handling Guatemalan issues for some years by this point, and the Ottawa-produced notes for this series reflect the firm's characteristic registration quality — rarely a problem with their output, which is part of why the relationship held.
The security thread used in this series was a relatively early adoption for Guatemalan paper currency at this denomination level, introduced as counterfeit pressure on Central American notes increased through the late 1980s and early 1990s.