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Intaglio portrait of General Justo Rufino Barrios to the right, set against a stepped pyramid vignette in deep rose-purple; a multicolour quetzal bird in flight occupies the upper left, accompanied by the Guatemalan national flag. A large guilloche rosette in orange underprint frames the central denomination numeral, with a Mayan mask vignette below and a decorative pre-Columbian cartouche to the lower left. Two signature lines appear at the bottom, above a microprint border band. |
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Central vignette in colour shows a female teacher surrounded by young pupils in a primary school classroom, with a chalkboard bearing letters and numerals visible in the background and the Guatemalan flag to the right; the scene commemorates Barrios's establishment of free, secular, and compulsory primary education. The left border carries an elaborate dark-blue Mayan codex-style column, while the right panel displays orange pre-Columbian glyphs, a Mayan mask, and a deity figure, all set against a fine spiral guilloche underprint in pale orange. |
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Oberthur Technologies held the Banco de Guatemala contract for much of the 2000s, producing this series at their Chantepie facility outside Rennes. The Q5 denomination had been printed on paper for decades by this point, with a polymer upgrade for the denomination not coming until the 2011–2013 transition period — making this 2008 issue one of the final paper runs before that changeover.
Security on this issue is relatively modest: a windowed thread and watermark, without the more complex features Oberthur was simultaneously providing to other central bank clients at the time.