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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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 1923 | Mintage included in KM#234 | ||||||||||||||
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