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Guatemalan peso: research record

Evidence coverage: 1821–1926. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.

This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.

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Guatemalan peso

FTM000074 · Research draft
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: 1821–1926; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

Spanish real / peso de a ochoaccount unit branching · 1821–1847
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Children / successors

Guatemalan quetzalaccount unit replacement · 1924–1926
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British Honduras / Belize dollarcurrency replacement · 1894
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Siblings

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Historical account research

The Guatemalan dollar or sol was the standard of value in British Honduras from1887.

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Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

1887supported

The Guatemalan dollar or sol was the standard of value in British Honduras from1887.

C1487
Evidence & research notes 5 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C992

The quetzal replaced the Guatemalan peso at sixty pesos per quetzal.

Banco de Guatemala · Reseña histórica de la moneda de Guatemala Citation S471 · Open source ↗

Paragraphs on November 1924 reform, initial dollar equivalence and 60-peso conversion

Supported C1487

The Guatemalan dollar or sol was the standard of value in British Honduras from1887.

Frank Cundall, Institute of Jamaica · Political and Social Disturbances in the West Indies: A Brief Account and Bibliography (1906) Citation S800 · Open source ↗

Printed20/PDF25

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Cites colonial annual report; not full ordinance transcription.

Supported C1663

Guatemalan quetzal replaced the local peso accountunit in the monetary conversion implemented at60pesos perquetzal.

Banco de Guatemala; José Rafael Vettorazzi Sagastume, editor/coordinator · Un Quetzal, una moneda, un siglo: Cien años de nuestra unidad monetaria Citation S733 · Open source ↗

Printedpp108,119/PDF112,123; discussion decrees879,1379 and1925lawchVIarts49–57

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1678

The British Honduras dollar replaced the locally used Guatemalan dollar or sol reckoning in October1894. Contemporary reports record wages and property prices passing from sols into the new gold-dollar accounting.

Frank Cundall, Institute of Jamaica · Political and Social Disturbances in the West Indies: A Brief Account and Bibliography (1906) Citation S800 · Open source ↗

Cundall20–21; Congressional Record3757

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Cites colonial annual report; not full ordinance transcription.

United States Congress, reproducing contemporary consular and gubernatorial reports · Congressional Record31, House (1898), p 3757 Citation S801 · Open source ↗

Cundall20–21; Congressional Record3757

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1692

Guatemala's national peso developed through the federal and independent continuation of the Spanish monetary system.

F. Tomás Dueñas and Manuel B. Chacón; Consejo Monetario Centroamericano · La moneda en Centroamérica: de la colonia a los Estados independientes, in50Aniversario (2014),207–223 Citation S858 · Open source ↗

CMCA214,218–219,222; Banguatlines265–268

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Banco de Guatemala · Historic Review of Guatemala Currency Citation S860 · Open source ↗

CMCA214,218–219,222; Banguatlines265–268

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

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