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100 Quetzales
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 2008-2021 |
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| Currency | Quetzal (1925-date) |
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| Obverse description | Predominantly red and brown intaglio print on a multicolour guilloche underprint. A fine-line engraved portrait vignette of Bishop Francisco Marroquín occupies the right half of the note, framed by geometric latticework. To the left, a colourful quetzal bird in flight appears above a Mayan deity figure rendered in multicolour, with the large denominational numeral '100' in intaglio at centre and a green holographic security disc at upper right. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour print centred on a detailed vignette of the Universidad de San Carlos de Borromeo (formerly the Colegio Mayor) in Antigua Guatemala, its colonial baroque façade rendered in fine engraved line work against a guilloche background in green and ochre tones. Denomination and issuer inscriptions appear above and below the central vignette. |
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P#119 spans over a decade and multiple printers — Casa de Moneda de Chile, Giesecke+Devrient, Oberthur Fiduciaire, and Royal Joh. Enschedé all produced runs of this denomination, which accounts for the subtle but catalogable differences in ink saturation and security thread specification across dates. Collectors working this series need to distinguish printer by date range, not assume uniformity.
The 100 Quetzal has been Guatemala's highest circulating denomination for most of its modern history, making print volume substantial and pristine survivors less common than their high face value might suggest.