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100 Quetzales
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1972-1983 |
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| Currency | Quetzal (1925-date) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the arcaded courtyard of the Universidad de San Carlos de Borromeo in Antigua Guatemala, rendered in detailed intaglio line work with arched colonnades extending to both sides. The denomination numeral '100' appears within ornamental Mayan-style medallions at left and right, with 'CIEN QUETZALES' lettered across the lower centre. A Mayan serpent motif decorates the far right border. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Pick 64 spans eleven years and seven signature combinations — an unusually long run for a high-denomination note, suggesting the Banco de Guatemala saw no pressing reason to redesign the 100-quetzal issue even as the country moved through successive governments and the early tremors of the civil conflict that would intensify through the 1980s. Ramiro Castillo Love appears on five of the seven dated issues, a tenure reflecting the relative stability of the finance ministry position compared to the political turbulence above it.
De La Rue's watermark security on this series was minimal by the standards of the period — a known vulnerability that later prompted the complete redesign issued under Pick 73.