Catalog
1 Lempira Without vertical bar, black serial number
| Issuer | Banco Central de Honduras |
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| Year | 1980-1992 |
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| Printer | Canadian Bank Note Company, Canada (1897-date)De La Rue (Thomas de la Rue; Thomas De La Rue & Co.; TDLR), London, United Kingdom (1821-date) |
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| Reverse description | Red on green underprint. The central vignette presents an illustration of the ancient Maya ruins at Copán, with the Ball Game Court and its associated stairway rendered in a detailed engraved style. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE HONDURAS RUINAS DE COPAN JUEGO DE PELOTA Y ESCALINATA UN LEMPIRA (Translation: Central Bank of Honduras One Lempira Ruins of ball game area and stairway in Copan) |
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Honduras introduced decimal currency in 1931, replacing the peso, and the lempira has been the national unit ever since — named after the sixteenth-century Lenca chieftain who resisted Spanish conquest. The 1 Lempira in this series ran across more than a decade of issue, with printing shared between the Canadian Bank Note Company and De La Rue, a split-production arrangement that accounts for subtle differences in plate quality and ink saturation between individual examples.
The "without vertical bar" distinction refers to a security element omitted from a subset of the print run — its absence is the diagnostic feature separating this Pick variant from closely related issues in the same period.