1 Lempira

Emittente	Banco Central de Honduras
Anno	1994
Tipo	Standard circulation banknote
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Descrizione del dritto	Printed in red intaglio on a light guilloche underprint, the obverse carries a three-quarter profile portrait of the indigenous Lenca chief Lempira at right, his name inscribed alongside. The national arms of Honduras occupy a guilloche vignette at left, encircled by the republic's full title legend. The bank title "BANCO CENTRAL DE HONDURAS", the date "12 DE MAYO DE 1994", the central denomination numeral, and three signature lines with printed official titles are arranged across the lower portion of the note.
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Descrizione del rovescio	The reverse is rendered in red intaglio and presents a panoramic aerial view of the pre-Columbian Maya ruins of Copán, with the ball court and grand hieroglyphic stairway filling the central field and an intricately carved stela visible at the right margin. Corner numerals "1" and a central guilloche ornament frame the composition, with the bank title arching across the top. A lower cartouche inscription identifies the depicted site.
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Commenti	Honduras switched its note contracts to Thomas De La Rue in the early 1990s after years of production by the American Bank Note Company, and this 1994 1 Lempira belongs to that transitional period. The lempira itself was named after the sixteenth-century Lenca chieftain who led prolonged resistance against Spanish forces before his death around 1537 — making the denomination one of the few in Central America named explicitly for indigenous resistance rather than a colonial or republican figure. De La Rue's security thread placement on this series is embedded rather than windowed, a specification that was already being phased out on higher-denomination notes by the mid-1990s.