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50 Quetzales
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Size | 156 × 68 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Carlos O. Zachrisson at right, rendered in intaglio against a red-orange guilloche underprint, with a central value numeral '50' in a decorative panel at left accompanied by a small Mayan stele vignette. The bank title 'BANCO DE GUATEMALA' and country legend 'GUATEMALA CENTRO AMERICA' appear across the upper margin, with the denomination inscription 'CINCUENTA QUETZALES' below the central vignette. Serial number, date, and signatory facsimiles appear in the lower register. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette illustrates a coffee harvest scene with several figures picking and gathering coffee beans beneath mature trees, rendered in a painterly intaglio style against an orange-red guilloche border. Mayan decorative motifs and glyphs frame the left and right margins, with a rosette numeral panel at upper right. The bank title 'BANCO DE GUATEMALA' runs across the top, and the denomination 'CINCUENTA QUETZALES' is inscribed below the central scene. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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