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0.50 Quetzal
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1998 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown on multicolour underprint. Portrait vignette of Tecun Uman at right, with a Quetzal bird at upper centre against a guilloche underprint background. Denomination and issuer inscriptions appear in intaglio print across the note face. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of Templo I (Temple of the Great Jaguar) at Tikal, rising steeply above surrounding jungle canopy, rendered in brown intaglio on a multicolour underprint. The denomination Q0.50 appears in large numerals to the left, with the fractional value 1/2 repeated at lower corners flanked by decorative Mayan motifs. A continuous Mayan-inspired geometric border frames the design, with the issuer name along the top and the denomination in words to the right. |
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The Guatemalan 0.50 quetzal denomination has had a complicated life within the series — by the late 1990s, it occupied an awkward position between coins and higher-denomination notes, already being phased toward irrelevance by inflation. Thomas De La Rue printed just over twelve million copies of this issue, a comparatively modest run for a circulating note intended to cover that volume of daily transactions.
P#98 belongs to the tail end of De La Rue's long-running contract with Banco de Guatemala before successive design reforms revised the series in the early 2000s.