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50 Quetzales
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1983-1987 |
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| Value | 50 Quetzales (50 GTQ) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red and violet tones and centres on a large intaglio vignette of a coffee harvest scene — workers picking and processing coffee cherries beneath a volcanic peak, within a decorative rectangular frame. Mayan decorative motifs in purple form vertical borders at each side, and the denomination inscription 'CINCUENTA QUETZALES' appears below the central vignette. The printer's imprint 'GIESECKE & DEVRIENT-MUNCHEN' is visible in the lower left margin. |
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| Protection description | the quetzal bird, visible when held to light. |
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| Comments |
Guatemala's 50 quetzal notes of this period were circulating during some of the most violent years of the internal armed conflict, when the military governments of Ríos Montt and then Mejía Víctores were conducting counterinsurgency campaigns in the highlands. Giesecke & Devrient had a longstanding relationship with the Banco de Guatemala going back decades, and Munich-printed notes were the norm for higher denominations throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
The P#70 series ran across four years with minimal design changes — date variations are the primary distinguishing factor between issues, and the 1983 examples are notably less common than those dated 1986 or 1987.