Catalog
1 Lempira
| Issuer | Banco Central de Honduras |
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| Year | 2000-2006 |
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| Size | 156 x 67 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE HONDURAS, C.A. BANCO CENTRAL DE HONDURAS UN LEMPIRA LEMPIRA PRESIDENTE GERENTE SECRETARIO DE FINANZAS 14 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2000 |
| Reverse description | Red-pink intaglio print on a pale guilloche underprint. The central vignette presents a panoramic aerial view of the Mayan ruins of Copán, with terraced structures, plazas, and a ball court rendered in fine engraved detail. At right, a large stela with intricate Mayan relief carving is set against a decorative numeral '1'. The bank title appears along the top margin in bold letterpress, and a descriptive inscription identifying the site is placed along the lower border. |
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Honduras retired its cotton-paper 1 Lempira series after this period in favor of polymer substrate notes — a shift that made the P#84 issue the last of the traditional paper 1 Lempira denomination. The Canadian Bank Note Company had held the Honduras printing contract for decades by this point, a relationship that kept production quality consistent across successive issues even as the security specifications evolved incrementally.
The security thread on this series is embedded rather than windowed, an older implementation already being phased out by peer issuers at the time.