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1 Peso
| Issuer | Tesorería Nacional de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Reference(s) | P#1 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in blue-green ink, with an intricate guilloche lathe-work pattern filling the field. A large numeral '1' appears twice in ornate cartouches at left and right, with the word 'UNO' inscribed between them at centre. The legend 'PAGUE EN LA ADMINISTRACIÓN DE GUATEMALA' runs along the upper margin within the border design. A circular treasury seal impression is visible at the lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | PAGUE EN LA ADMINISTRACIÓN DE GUATEMALA UNO 1 1 |
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Guatemala's first nationally issued paper peso, printed before the country had established its own fiscal infrastructure capable of handling note production domestically. The Tesorería Nacional — the national treasury, not a central bank — was the issuing body, a distinction that matters: these notes circulated on the government's direct credit rather than through any banking intermediary, a fragile arrangement in a country where silver coin still dominated everyday exchange and paper remained deeply distrusted.
ABNC's New York workshops produced the plates; Pick 1 status means nothing preceded it in standardized Guatemalan national paper currency.