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25 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Agrícola Mercantil |
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| Year | 1888 |
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| Value | 25 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Black print on green and blue underprint, with a seated allegorical female figure at left, a central vignette of a woman amid tropical agricultural produce ("The Tropics No. 2"), and a vignette of farm animals at lower right. The layout is characteristic of American Bank Note Company engraving with fine guilloche border work and multi-element composition. Issuing bank name, place, date, and denomination inscriptions appear in letterpress throughout. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue, the reverse carries the bank name and denomination in a straightforward typographic arrangement, consistent with the simplified back designs typical of American Bank Note Company issues of this period. |
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Banco Agrícola Mercantil was a Guatemalan private bank operating under the liberal banking legislation of the 1870s and 1880s, a period when concession-based note issuance was the norm rather than the exception. The American Bank Note Company contract work for Central American issuers during this decade was extensive, and the printing quality was generally well ahead of what the issuing institutions themselves could have arranged domestically.
Private Guatemalan bank notes from this period were demonetized following the 1926 nationalization of currency under the Banco Central de Guatemala, which makes survivors genuinely uncommon. The S-prefix in the Pick reference reflects its classification as a private commercial issue rather than a state or central bank obligation.