Q10 — Ten Quetzales
The artwork
Front: A red-plate portrait of General Miguel García Granados fills the right third, bespectacled and severe, set against banded Maya fretwork. The caption below credits him as President of the Republic 1871–1873, who pushed through the principal legal codes that stood for nearly a century. Left of centre, a large ornamented 10 and DIEZ QUETZALES; further left, a resplendent quetzal in green and crimson and a carved standing figure from a Maya stela. Three signatures: Presidente, Gerente, Contralor General de Cuentas.
Back: A multicoloured chamber scene, captioned Sesión de la Asamblea Nacional Legislativa de 1872: frock-coated deputies at their benches and desks, a speaker standing mid-address, the sky-blue and white national colours draped behind the rostrum beneath the arms of Guatemala. The panel is framed in deep carmine Maya glyph borders, with a stela figure at the left edge and a seated Maya lord in pale relief at the right, beside the numerals 10.
In circulation
The red García Granados 10 quetzales, carrying the authorisation date of 29 July 1998, belongs to the long-running modern family of Banco de Guatemala notes. The design has been reissued repeatedly with later authorisation dates and progressively upgraded security, so notes of this appearance remain in daily use rather than having been replaced outright.
Details
- IssuerBanco de Guatemala — "Guatemala, Centro América"
- CurrencyQuetzal (Q)
- DenominationTen Quetzales
- Collectedon the Guatemala journey, 2003
- SeriesAuthorisation date 29 Julio 1998; serial D62463870A, letter prefix and letter suffix
- SignatureThree: Presidente, Gerente, and Contralor General de Cuentas