Catalog
1 Lempira
| Issuer | Banco Central de Honduras |
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| Year | 2008-2010 |
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| Currency | Lempira (1931-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE HONDURAS, C.A. BANCO CENTRAL DE HONDURAS UN LEMPIRA LEMPIRA 1 |
| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in red on a light background, presents a panoramic intaglio vignette of the Mayan ruins of Copán, including the ball court and stairway, rendered in fine engraved detail across the central field. A decorative pre-Columbian motif appears at the top center, flanked by the issuer's name "BANCO CENTRAL DE HONDURAS" along the top margin, with the numeral "1" in guilloche at the right. The inscription "RUINAS DE COPAN JUEGO DE PELOTA Y ESCALINATA" appears in a panel along the lower portion of the note. |
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The P#89 series marked Honduras's transition toward a more security-conscious print run for the 1 Lempira denomination, though the note itself remained one of the lower-security issues in the Central American region at the time — watermark and embedded thread without the optical features appearing on higher denominations in the same family. The Banco Central had been gradually modernizing its currency program through the 2000s following persistent counterfeiting pressure on small-denomination notes, which circulate hardest and are replaced least often.
Cotton substrate on low-denomination, high-circulation notes like this tends to show heavy soiling quickly in the Honduran market. Uncirculated examples from this short window are less common than the print run might suggest.