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50 Quetzales
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Value | 50 Quetzales |
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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. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE GUATEMALA 50 CINCUENTA QUETZALES |
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| Comments |
Guatemala's 50 Quetzal denomination has historically been the country's highest-value note in regular circulation for extended periods, making it a frequent target for counterfeiting. Giesecke & Devrient's Leipzig facility has printed Guatemalan currency across multiple series, and the relationship between the two institutions stretches back decades — unusual for a Central American bank, which more commonly rotated between British and American security printers during the twentieth century.
The watermark-only security specification on a 2001-dated note is notably sparse by contemporary standards, at a time when most comparable issues were incorporating security threads and color-shifting ink as baseline features.