Currency history
Guatemalan peso
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
- Ancestry branch
- Spanish real / peso
Its place in the family
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Guatemalan peso
Spanish real / peso de a ocho
Castilian maravedí / real de vellón accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
1 later contribution joined this currency. See those connections →
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
- Frank Cundall, Institute of Jamaica · Political and Social Disturbances in the West Indies: A Brief Account and Bibliography (1906)
- Banco de Guatemala; José Rafael Vettorazzi Sagastume, editor/coordinator · Un Quetzal, una moneda, un siglo: Cien años de nuestra unidad monetaria
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“Guatemalan peso.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Updated 2026-10-14; data version v49. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000074.html