2021-09-13 Mon

The Bank of Guatemala is set to issue the first commemorative banknote in its history this September, celebrating the bicentennial of its declaration of independence from Spain in September 1821.

The 20-quetzal note celebrates the bicentennial of Guatemala’s declaration of independence from Spain. The declaration, known as the Act of Independence of Central America, was actually made by a group of five countries that also included Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Guatemala’s total independence from the other four occurred later, in 1840.

The vertically oriented face displays the portrait of Mariano Galvez, one of the signers of the declaration. Galvez was also Guatemala’s chief of the state within the united Central American states from 1831 to 1838.

The back is in a traditional horizontal format. On the left of the back is a scene the signature of the Act of the Independence of Central America.

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