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100 Quetzales
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 2001-2008 |
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| Size | 156 × 66 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 100 Banco De Guatemala Guatemala, Centro America Cien Quetzales 100 Autorizacion 9 De Abril De 2001 Gerente Presidente Contralor General De Cuentas 100 Obispo Y Licenciado Francisco Marroquín Defensor De Los Indigenas Y Creador Del Colegio Mayor |
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| Protection description | a Mayan man wearing a ceremonial headdress, visible when held to light; vertical holographic security strip on the obverse displaying the denomination numeral |
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Guatemala's 100 Quetzal note occupies an uncomfortable position in domestic circulation — high enough in face value to matter, but issued during a period when the quetzal had shed most of the purchasing power it held before the late-1980s structural adjustment programs dismantled fixed exchange controls. G&D's Leipzig plant has printed Guatemalan currency across multiple series, a relationship that predates the current republic's constitutional settlement of 1985.
P#104 spans a seven-year print window, meaning date varieties exist and are worth distinguishing. Later dates in the run incorporated incremental security upgrades without a full series redesign.