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0.50 Quetzal
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1993-1995 |
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| Value | 50 Centavos (0.50 GTQ) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE GUATEMALA GUATEMALA CENTRO AMERICA CINCUENTA CENTAVOS DE QUETZAL Q0.50 TECUN UMAN HEROE NACIONAL GERENTE PRESIDENTE CONTRALOR GENERAL DE CUENTAS AUTORIZACION 27 SEPTIEMBRE 1994 (Translation: Bank of Guatemala Guatemala Central America Fifty Centavos of a Quetzal Q0.50 Tecun Uman National Hero Manager President Comptroller General of Accounts Authorization 27 September 1994) |
| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a multicolour intaglio rendering of Temple I (Temple of the Great Jaguar) at the Maya archaeological site of Tikal, rising steeply against a pale blue sky and surrounded by jungle canopy in olive and green tones. The large numeral Q0.50 in outline letterpress occupies the left field, while the inscription CINCUENTA CENTAVOS DE QUETZAL appears to the upper right. The border is formed by a geometric Mayan-motif guilloche band in brown and amber, with the denomination 1/2 repeated in the lower corners alongside small quetzal bird ornaments, and a frieze of Maya glyphs runs along the upper register beneath the bank name. |
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The Canadian Bank Note Company held the Banco de Guatemala printing contract for much of the late twentieth century, producing the quetzal series through successive design generations with consistent technical execution. This particular half-quetzal belongs to a short window of issue before Guatemala's note programme underwent modernisation in the mid-1990s, when polymer substrates and upgraded security threads began displacing cotton paper across the lower denominations.
A watermark-only security specification was already thin by 1993 standards — contemporaneous issues from neighbouring central banks were incorporating security threads as standard. Worth noting if provenance within the series matters to a collection.