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1 Peso El Banco Atlantida
| Issuer | El Banco Atlántida |
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| Year | 1913-1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO ATLANTIDA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR EN MONEDA EFECTIVA 1 UN PESO PLATA LA CEIBA, HONDURAS, 1o DE ABRIL DE 1913 American Bank Note Co. New York (Translation: The Bank of Atlántida Will pay the bearer in legal tender 1 One Peso La Ceiba, Honduras, 1st of April of 1913 American Bank Note Co. New York) |
| Reverse description | The Honduran coat of arms is centered within an oval cartouche, flanked on either side by large numeral "1" vignettes set against an intricate guilloche underprint of interlocking lathe-work rosettes. The denomination "UN PESO PLATA" is inscribed in a panel along the lower portion, with the bank title arching above the central oval and the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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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.