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| Emittent | Banco de Occidente, Sucursal de Guatemala |
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| Jahr | 1894 |
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| Währung | Peso (1859-1924) |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Multicolour note with a central intaglio vignette of a seated allegorical female figure resting beside bales of cotton and an industrial wheel, with a harbour and vessels in the background. To the left, the arms of the Republic of Guatemala within a circular guilloche frame; to the right, a quetzal bird perched on a branch, rendered in green intaglio. The denomination numeral "5" appears in ornate rosette panels at each corner, with the issuer title across the top and the payable clause "Pagará al portador" and "Cinco Pesos" inscribed across the lower register. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Entirely engraved in deep rose-red, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate central guilloche rosette of concentric geometric lacework, flanked symmetrically by two confronted eagle or condor vignettes with outstretched wings. The entire field is filled with intricate lathe-work borders and repeating ornamental patterns; the denomination numeral "5" appears in large format at each corner. The issuer inscription curves along the upper arc of the central medallion. |
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Banco de Occidente was a Colombian-chartered institution that operated branches across Central America in the late nineteenth century, and its Guatemala branch issues occupy an oddly peripheral corner of Central American notaphily — not quite Colombian, not quite Guatemalan in legal character. The American Bank Note Company printed the entire Sucursal de Guatemala series, a common arrangement for regional banks that lacked access to domestic security printing but needed credible, difficult-to-counterfeit paper.
By 1894, Guatemala's monetary situation was deteriorating rapidly toward the currency chaos that would culminate in the forced transition to the gold-standard quetzal decades later. Private bank notes from foreign-chartered institutions circulated alongside government paper under increasingly tenuous conditions.
P#S185 is scarce in any grade — the branch had a short active life, and surviving issued examples are considerably harder to locate than remainders.