50 Quetzales

BA International — the renamed successor to British American Bank Note Company — printed this series during a period when Guatemala was transitioning out of decades of military governance toward elected civilian rule. The 50 Quetzal denomination has historically been the workhorse of larger commercial transactions in Guatemala, and the P#84 series remained in active circulation well into the 1990s before polymer and redesigned issues began displacing paper series across the region.

BA International closed its doors in 2012, making any documentation of their Guatemalan contracts increasingly difficult to trace through surviving production records.