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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 349729, member: 4626&quot;]Nice bill.&nbsp; I have a nice crisp 1 quetzal from the pre-polymer days, that I picked up from Guatemala in 1999.&nbsp; (Wow has it really been 9 years?)&nbsp; Besides the poly window and dates the design looks not to have changed much apparently...</p><p><br /></p><p>I also have the 1 quetzal coin that was brand new at the time (has the word &quot;paz&quot; (peace) in a script that wraps around to form the outline of a quetzal.)&nbsp; Seemed like they were proposing to eliminate the note for the coin but apparently that hasn&#039;t happened.</p><p><br /></p><p>My 1998 1 quetzal bill:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img5.ranchoweb.com/images/troodon/quetzalfront.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img5.ranchoweb.com/images/troodon/quetzalback.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Love how the person honored on the 1 quetzal bill, General Jose Maria Orellana, is mainly honored for being the person who changed Guatemala&#039;s currency from the peso to the quetzal.&nbsp; Cetrainly is a catchier name.&nbsp; (The quetzal btw is that bird pictured on the top of the front of the bill, just under &quot;Banco de Guatemala&quot; and above the serial number.&nbsp; Beautiful bird and very hard to spot... actually easier to spot in Costa Rica during some times.&nbsp; The quetzal is also on Guatemala&#039;s flag, national seal, etc... as prevalanet a symbol in Guatemala as the bald eagle is in the US.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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