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50 Quetzales
| Issuer | Banco de Guatemala |
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| Year | 2012-2020 |
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| Value | 50 Quetzales |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents an engraved pastoral scene of coffee harvesting — 'Corte de Café' — with workers picking coffee beans among trees, a volcanic cone visible in the background, enclosed within an ornate guilloche border. A pre-Columbian Mayan stele is rendered at left, and at right a Mayan deity figure appears above the Guatemalan flag in colour. Denomination numerals '50' appear at lower left and lower right corners, with the printer's imprint 'OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE' at the bottom centre. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE GUATEMALA CINCUENTA QUETZALES CORTE DE CAFÉ OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE |
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The P#125 series was Guatemala's first to introduce a windowed security thread on the 50 Quetzales denomination, a response to increasingly sophisticated counterfeiting of the note that had circulated through dense informal markets in Guatemala City and along the Mexican border crossing at La Mesilla. Oberthur's contract for the Guatemalan portfolio dates to the early 2000s, and this series reflects their house preference for optically variable ink on higher denominations rather than the foil patches used by competitors in the same period.
Cotton substrate from Oberthur's French facility. The 2012 issue date marks the first year of the redesigned series, with printings continuing through 2020 without significant security upgrades between runs.