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50 Quetzales Banco de Guatemala
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1967-1973 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, Limited, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Orange and blue on multicolour underprint. Portrait of José María Orellana Pinto at right, with a vignette of a Quetzal bird in flight above the central denomination numeral. Black seven-digit serial numbers appear on the note, with the authorization date printed below the primary inscriptions. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE GUATEMALA GUATEMALA, CENTRO AMERICA 50 CINCUENTA QUETZALES Autorización de 7 Enero 1970 (Translation: Bank of Guatemala Guatemala, Central America Fifty Quetzals Authorization of January 7th., 1970) |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in orange. At left, a large guilloche rosette surrounds the numeral "50"; at centre, an intaglio vignette of the Banco de Guatemala headquarters building is rendered in fine architectural detail against a mountain backdrop, captioned below the vignette. A decorative border of interlocking guilloche patterns frames the entire composition, with denomination numerals repeated in each corner. |
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