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5 Pesos
| Issuer | El Banco Internacional de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1900-1916 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S155 |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE GUATEMALA Nº Serie pagará al portador en moneda efectiva CINCO PESOS GUATEMALA Directores de turno Gerente BANCO INTERNACIONAL GUATEMALA |
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| Reverse lettering | EL BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE GUATEMALA 5 5 Waterlow & Sons Limited, London & Watford Waterlow & Sons Limited, London & Watford |
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El Banco Internacional de Guatemala was one of several private banks authorized to issue currency under Guatemala's late-nineteenth-century banking law, a system that allowed multiple institutions to circulate their own notes simultaneously — a source of chronic public confusion and periodic financial instability. Waterlow & Sons handled a substantial share of Latin American private bank printing during this period, and their Guatemala work was no exception.
The series ran across nearly two decades, which means date examination matters. Notes from the later years of issue, toward 1916, were circulating against the backdrop of wartime commodity disruptions that hit coffee-dependent Guatemala hard.