Currency history
Guatemalan peso
Guatemalan peso: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
- Ancestry branch
- Spanish real / peso
Its place in the family
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The story
The quetzal replaced the Guatemalan peso at sixty pesos per quetzal. [1]
The Guatemalan dollar or sol was the standard of value in British Honduras from 1887. [2]
Guatemalan quetzal replaced the local peso accountunit in the monetary conversion implemented at60pesos perquetzal. [3]
Sources and evidence
- Banco de Guatemala · Reseña histórica de la moneda de Guatemala C992 ↗
- Frank Cundall, Institute of Jamaica · Political and Social Disturbances in the West Indies: A Brief Account and Bibliography (1906) C1487 ↗
- Banco de Guatemala; José Rafael Vettorazzi Sagastume, editor/coordinator · Un Quetzal, una moneda, un siglo: Cien años de nuestra unidad monetaria C1663 ↗
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“Guatemalan peso.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000074.html