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quetzal
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currency of Guatemala
Key facts
- Code
- GTQ (numeric: 320 )
- Plural
- quetzales
- Symbol
- Q
- 1 100
- centavo
- Banknotes
- 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 quetzales
- Coins
- 5, 10, 25, 50 centavos, 1 quetzal
- Replaced
- Guatemalan peso
- User s
- Guatemala
- Central bank
- Bank of Guatemala
- Website
- www .banguat .gob .gt
- Inflation
- 6.2%
- Source
- Link
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- currency
- Named after
- Resplendent Quetzal
- Country
- Guatemala
- Manufacturer
- Polish Security Printing Works
- Image
- Ein Quetzal.jpg
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- central bank/issuer
- Bank of Guatemala
- Commons category
- Money of Guatemala
- start time
- 1925-00-00
- unit symbol
- Q
- price
- 0.1126
- applies to jurisdiction
- Guatemala
- replaces
- Guatemalan peso
- conversion to standard unit
- 0.2470355731225296
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
The quetzal ( locally [keˈtsal]; 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.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “quetzal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.