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5 Quetzales
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Value | 5 Quetzales (5 GTQ) |
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| Obverse description | Violet and multicolour note with a portrait of General Justo Rufino Barrios at right, set within an intaglio vignette against a fine guilloche underprint. At left centre, a quetzal bird perches beside a Mayan pyramid vignette, with the denomination numeral '5' in large letterpress print below. The issuer inscription 'BANCO DE GUATEMALA / GUATEMALA - CENTRO AMERICA' runs along the top border, with the serial number and three facsimile signatures of bank officials appearing across the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Violet and multicolour note with a central vignette illustrating a classroom scene in which a teacher instructs several children gathered around a desk, with a chalkboard bearing letters and numerals visible in the background. The issuer name 'BANCO DE GUATEMALA' is printed along the top border, and the denomination text 'CINCO QUETZALES' appears at the bottom centre. Decorative Mayan-style borders frame the composition on both lateral edges, with the numeral '5' repeated at the corners. |
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Guatemala's quetzal series of this period was produced under a long-standing relationship with De La Rue that dated back to earlier decades of Banco de Guatemala issuance. P#92 falls within a transitional phase for the series — the early 1990s saw Guatemala stabilizing after the economic turbulence of the 1980s, when the quetzal had been pegged at parity with the US dollar but experienced significant black market pressure before a managed float was introduced in 1989.
The security thread on this issue is a simple embedded metallic type, reflecting De La Rue's standard specification for mid-tier production runs of that period rather than the more sophisticated windowed threads the printer was simultaneously deploying on higher-security contracts elsewhere.