{"id":14875,"date":"2010-09-11T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=14875"},"modified":"2020-01-31T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T15:28:07","slug":"guatemala-new-200-quetzal-note-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=14875","title":{"rendered":"Guatemala new 200-quetzal note (B602a) confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.banguat.gob.gt\/\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Bank of Guatemala<\/a> introduced a new 200-quetzal (US$25) note on 23 August 2010 (originally scheduled for November 2009) in response to high demand and counterfeiting rate of the existing 100-quetzal note, which was issued with improved security on 6 November 2009. The Q200 is printed by the German firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gi-de.com\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giesecke &amp; Devrient<\/a>, whereas the Q100 is printed by the Dutch company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joh-enschede.nl\/\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joh Ensched\u00e9 Banknotes<\/a>. The notes have over 20 security features, including special paper, UV ink, latent image, OVI, security thread, holographic patch, and laser etching of the serial number below the watermark area.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-20835\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Guatemala_BDG_200_quetzales_2009.02.18_B602a_P120_H_01292933_A_f-1024x439.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Guatemala_BDG_200_quetzales_2009.02.18_B602a_P120_H_01292933_A_f-1024x439.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Guatemala_BDG_200_quetzales_2009.02.18_B602a_P120_H_01292933_A_f-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Guatemala_BDG_200_quetzales_2009.02.18_B602a_P120_H_01292933_A_f-768x329.jpg 768w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Guatemala_BDG_200_quetzales_2009.02.18_B602a_P120_H_01292933_A_f-1536x658.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Guatemala_BDG_200_quetzales_2009.02.18_B602a_P120_H_01292933_A_f-465x199.jpg 465w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Guatemala_BDG_200_quetzales_2009.02.18_B602a_P120_H_01292933_A_f-695x298.jpg 695w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Guatemala_BDG_200_quetzales_2009.02.18_B602a_P120_H_01292933_A_f.jpg 1839w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-20836\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Guatemala_BDG_200_quetzales_2009.02.18_B602a_P120_H_01292933_A_r-1024x434.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Guatemala_BDG_200_quetzales_2009.02.18_B602a_P120_H_01292933_A_r-1024x434.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Guatemala_BDG_200_quetzales_2009.02.18_B602a_P120_H_01292933_A_r-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Guatemala_BDG_200_quetzales_2009.02.18_B602a_P120_H_01292933_A_r-768x325.jpg 768w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Guatemala_BDG_200_quetzales_2009.02.18_B602a_P120_H_01292933_A_r-1536x651.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Guatemala_BDG_200_quetzales_2009.02.18_B602a_P120_H_01292933_A_r-465x197.jpg 465w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Guatemala_BDG_200_quetzales_2009.02.18_B602a_P120_H_01292933_A_r-695x294.jpg 695w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Guatemala_BDG_200_quetzales_2009.02.18_B602a_P120_H_01292933_A_r.jpg 1846w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-entry-body\">\n<p><b>B602 <\/b>(P120):<b> 200 quetzales <\/b>(US$26)<\/p>\n<p>Light blue, brown, purple, green, yellow, and red. Front: Spanish text; perched quetzal bird; flag; coat of arms; Mayan glyph on green-to-blue OVI patch; stylized temple; Sebasti\u00e1n Hurtado, Mariano Valverde, and German Alc\u00e1ntara. Back: Spanish text; musical score of <i>La Flor del Caf\u00e9<\/i> (Coffee Flower) by Alc\u00e1ntara; marimba chrom\u00e1tica instrument by Hurtado; and allusion to <i>Noche de luna entre ruinas<\/i> (Moonlit night among the ruins) by Valverde; flag; perched quetzal bird. Windowed security thread with demetalized <i>200BG<\/i>. Watermark: Hurtado, Valverde, Alc\u00e1ntara, and electrotype <i>200<\/i>. Printer: (Giesecke &amp; Devrient). 156 x 67 mm. Paper.<\/p>\n<p>a. 18 DE FEBRERO DE 2009.<br \/>\nSig. 51: Alonzo\/Bonilla.<br \/>\nPrefix H. Suffix A. Intro: 23.08.2010.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Thomas Augustsson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Guatemala introduced a new 200-quetzal (US$25) note on 23 August 2010 (originally scheduled for November 2009) in response to high demand and counterfeiting rate of the existing 100-quetzal note, which was issued with improved security on 6 November 2009. The Q200 is printed by the German firm<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=14875\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,337],"tags":[66],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-14875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-central-america","category-new-note","tag-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14875"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28253,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14875\/revisions\/28253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}