10 Centavos Independence

Honduras issued this small silver piece during the reform coinage of 1879, when the newly consolidated national mint at Tegucigalpa began replacing the chaotic regional and foreign currency that had circulated since independence. The country's monetary system in the 1870s was genuinely dysfunctional — Spanish colonial reales, Central American Federation remnants, and foreign coins all passed at negotiated rates, making standardized decimal coinage a political as much as economic necessity.

KM#35 was struck for only two years before specification changes altered the series.