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1 Peso Provisional Coinage
| Issuer | Casa Nacional de la Moneda, Tegucigalpa |
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| Year | 1862 |
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| Thickness | 1.3 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central motif depicts a large tree in full foliage standing in the field, flanked on each side by the denomination expressed as '1 Po.' The outer legend encircles the design, with the date '1862' and mint assayer initials 'T' and 'A' separated by dots appearing at the base of the design. The composition is enclosed within a beaded border, with the entire reverse maintaining a straightforward heraldic and typographic layout characteristic of Central American provisional coinage of the period. |
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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.