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1 Peso El Banco Atlantida
| Issuer | El Banco Atlántida |
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| Year | 1913-1919 |
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| Currency | Second Peso (decimalized, 1879-1931) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a seated allegorical female figure on a seashore, turned to the right, with an anchor at her feet; a lighthouse and sailing vessel appear in the distant background. The denomination and bank title are inscribed within the surrounding border, with the issuance date and place of issue incorporated into the text panel. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 BANCO ATLANTIDA UN PESO PLATA UN PESO REPÚBLICA LIBRE DE HONDURAS PROCLAMADA EL 15 DE SETIEMBRE 1821 1 UNO AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK (Translation: 1 Bank of Atlántida One Peso in Silver One Peso Free Republic of Honduras proclaimed on the 15th of September 1821 1 One American Bank Note Company, New York) |
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El Banco Atlántida was a Honduran commercial bank chartered in 1913, operating during a period when private banks rather than any central authority were responsible for note issue in the country. The ABNC contract for this series was entirely routine for the period — New York firms dominated Latin American private bank printing, and Atlántida was one of several Honduran institutions drawing on that same supply chain simultaneously.
Honduras wouldn't consolidate note-issuing authority into a central bank until 1950. These private-issue pesos circulated in a genuinely fractured monetary environment, competing notes from multiple banks passing side by side.