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Guatemala - 200 Guatemalan Quetzales - P-120 - 2009 dated Foreign Paper Money

Inv# FM2494   Foreign Paper Money
Country: Guatemala
Years: 18.2.2009

200 Quetzales, P-120. Security strip on front. The quetzal (locally [ke?tsal]; code: GTQ) is the currency of Guatemala, named after the national bird of Guatemala, the resplendent quetzal. In ancient Mayan culture, the quetzal bird's tail feathers were used as currency. It is divided into 100 centavos, or len (plural lenes) in Guatemalan slang. The plural is quetzales. The quetzal was introduced in 1925 during the term of President José María Orellana, whose image appears on the obverse of the one-quetzal bill. It replaced the Guatemalan peso at the rate of 60 pesos = 1 quetzal. Until 1987, the quetzal was pegged to and domestically equal to the United States dollar. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_quetzal

Condition: C.U.
Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.
Price: $70.00