Catalog
1 Peso Provisional Coinage
| Issuer | Casa Nacional de la Moneda, Tegucigalpa |
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| Year | 1862 |
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| Value | 1 Peso |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the Honduran provisional coat of arms enclosed within a beaded inner circle: a triangle surmounted by a radiant sun, with an eagle displayed at its base, all resting on a castellated fortification flanked by decorative foliage. Above the shield, a crown of wheat ears is depicted. The circumscribed legend, reading from bottom left to upper right, is separated from the inner circle by a plain border. Decorative floral and foliate ornaments appear at the left and right sides of the outer ring. |
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| Obverse lettering | MONEDA PROVISIONAL DEL ESTADO DE HONDURAS • (Translation: Provisional Coin of the State of Honduras) |
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Honduras struck this copper peso during a period when silver shortages made fractional coinage nearly impossible to maintain in circulation. The Tegucigalpa mint — operating under chronic resource constraints throughout the mid-nineteenth century — issued these provisionals as a stopgap, acknowledging openly in their designation that the pieces were temporary. Few Central American mints of the era admitted as much on the coins themselves.
KM#24 survivors in any condition above heavily corroded are genuinely scarce. Copper coinage from Tegucigalpa circulated hard in a cash-poor economy.