0.50 Quetzal

Features

Issuer	Guatemala
Issuing bank	Central Bank of Guatemala (Banco Central de Guatemala)
Period	Republic (1841-date)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Year	1998
Value	½ Quetzal (½ GTQ)
Currency	Quetzal (1925-date)
Composition	Paper
Size	156 × 68 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 208107
References	P# 98 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

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Obverse

Brown on multicolor underprint. Tecun Uman at right, with shape of the Tikal Temple on background. Quetzal bird flying at upper center.
Issuer name on top, with country name below. Face value in fractions on all four corners, in numbers and letters at center.
Black serial #s, 8 digits, with prefix and suffix letters on top left and lower right. Tree brown signatures at lower center, issuing authorization date on right edge. Printer name on bottom left corner.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
1/2 BANCO DE GUATEMALA
GUATEMALA, CENTRO AMERICA
A38098821A CINCUENTA
CENTAVOS DE QUETZAL
Q0.50
AUTORIZACIÓN
9 ENERO 1988
PRESIDENTE
GERENTE CONTRALOR GENERAL DE CUENTAS
TECUN UMAN HEROE NACIONAL
DE LA RUE

Translation:
Bank of Guatemala
Guatemala, Central America
Fifty
Centavos of a Quetzal
0.50 Quetzal

Designer: Rodolfo Galeotti Torres

Reverse

Tikal temple at center. Issuer name on top, face value in fractions on all four corners; in symbol and numbers on left; in letters on top right.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
1/2 BANCO DE GUATEMALA
Q0.50 CINCUENTA CENTAVOS
DE QUETZAL
TEMPLO TIKAL

Translation:
Bank of Guatemala
0.50 Quetzal
Fifty Centavos of Quetzal
Tikal Temple

Printer

De La Rue (Thomas de la Rue; Thomas De La Rue & Co.; TDLR), London, United Kingdom (1821-date)

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Date			No. printed		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC	References
Undetermined
1998-Jan-09			24 000 000			$ 1.30	$ 1.30	$ 1.60	$ 2.10	$ 2.40	P# 98 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Signatures: Velásquez/Verbena/Aguilar; Series: Prefix A, Suffix A

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Katz Auction 107 Lot 2599	10 Jan 2024	UNC	USD 5.76 (EUR 5.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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	Katz Auction 93 Lot 2594	24 Aug 2023	UNC	Unsold
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