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5 Pesos Provisional Coinage

Features

Issuer Guatemala
Period Republic (1841-date)
Type Standard circulation coins
Year 1923
Value 5 Pesos
Currency Peso, decimalized (1869-1925)
Composition Copper
Diameter 25 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
35731
References KM# 234a
Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes).

Series: Provisional Series

Obverse

Justo Rufino Barrios, president of Guatemala between 1873 and 1885, facing right. With name at left and date right.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
J. RUFINO
BARRIOS
1923

Reverse

Value, legend and metal at bottom.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
CINCO
PESOS
REPUBLICA DE
GUATEMALA
COBRE

Translation:
Five
Pesos
Republic of
Guatemala
Copper

Comments

Provisional coinage of 1915-1923 was made in order to facilitate conversion from the Real system to the decimal system, because up to that point Real and Peso were both legal tender, but the Real was being phased out.

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1923  Mintage included in KM#234

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