Catalog
5 Quetzales
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE GUATEMALA GUATEMALA, CENTRO AMERICA CINCO QUETZALES AUTORIZACION 29 DE JULIO DE 1998 GENERAL JUSTO RUFINO BARRIOS PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA, 1873-1885, REFORMADOR DEL PAIS E IMPULSOR DE LA UNION CENTROAMERICANA PRESIDENTE GERENTE CONTRALOR GENERAL DE CUENTAS (Translation: Bank of Guatemala / Guatemala, Central America / Five Quetzals / Authorization 29 July 1998 / General Justo Rufino Barrios, President of the Republic, 1873–1885, Reformer of the Country and Promoter of Central American Union / President / Manager / Comptroller General of Accounts) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE GUATEMALA CINCO QUETZALES EL GENERAL JUSTO RUFINO BARRIOS ESTABLECIO LA ENSENANZA PRIMARIA, GRATUITA, LAICA Y OBLIGATORIA (Translation: Bank of Guatemala / Five Quetzals / General Justo Rufino Barrios established free, secular and compulsory primary education) |
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BA International — the renamed successor to British American Bank Note Company — printed Guatemalan currency for decades, and by 1998 the relationship was well established. The Montreal firm had supplied much of Central America's printed currency since the mid-twentieth century, making Canadian printing houses quietly dominant in a region most would associate with European security printers.
Pick 100 falls within a long-running quetzal series that outlasted several political administrations and a sustained period of IMF-pressured fiscal reform in Guatemala during the 1990s. The security specification here — watermark and thread only — reflects the lower-denomination treatment typical of notes expected to turn over rapidly in daily commerce.