50 Quetzales

Issuer	Banco de Guatemala
Year	2012-2020
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Size	156 × 67 mm
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Obverse description	Predominantly red and multicolour note with an intaglio portrait of Carlos O. Zachrisson at right, set against a finely engraved guilloche underprint with a stepped Mayan temple pyramid in the background. At left, a coloured vignette of the national bird, the quetzal, appears above a Mayan codex figure, with the Guatemalan flag rendered in colour at lower centre. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large optically variable ink at far right, and a windowed security thread runs vertically through the centre of the note.
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Reverse description	The central vignette presents an engraved pastoral scene of coffee harvesting — 'Corte de Café' — with workers picking coffee beans among trees, a volcanic cone visible in the background, enclosed within an ornate guilloche border. A pre-Columbian Mayan stele is rendered at left, and at right a Mayan deity figure appears above the Guatemalan flag in colour. Denomination numerals '50' appear at lower left and lower right corners, with the printer's imprint 'OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE' at the bottom centre.
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Protection description	Carlos O. Zachrisson portrait visible when held to light; windowed security thread running vertically with microprinting; optically variable ink on the '50' denomination numeral at far right of obverse, shifting colour when viewed at different angles.
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