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1 Lempira Customs Note
| Issuer | República de Honduras |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 170 x 97 mm |
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| Obverse description | Blue intaglio printing on light blue guilloche underprint. State coat of arms of Honduras at left, with issuer name across top and denomination in numerals at all four corners and center right; value in letters below center. Three manuscript signatures with titles and six-digit register numbers; serial number and series letter in red at upper left and upper right respectively; date of issue at top right. Printer imprint at bottom. |
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| Reverse description | Plain blue letterpress printing on unadorned white paper, with no pictorial vignette or guilloche underprint. Issuer name in two lines at top, note type below, and printer imprint at bottom. |
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Honduras issued a parallel series of "Customs Notes" — Billetes de Aduana — specifically to settle import duty obligations, a mechanism used by several Central American governments when hard currency was short and customs revenue needed to be mobilized quickly. These circulated through a narrower channel than ordinary banknotes: collected at ports and border posts, remitted to the Treasury, and theoretically retired rather than recirculated. In practice, some inevitably leaked into general commerce.
ABNC printed the series from New York under contract during a period when the company held most of Central America's government security printing business. The 1937 date places this note under the Carias Andino dictatorship, which ran uninterrupted from 1933 to 1949.