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10 Lempiras
| Issuer | Banco de Honduras |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Reference(s) | P#43 |
| Obverse description | Green on brown underprint with fine guilloche latticework throughout. An intaglio oval portrait vignette of Santos Soto is positioned at right, with the large ornate numeral '10' centrepiece flanked by red serial numbers and 'SERIE B' designations at left and right. Three manuscript signatures appear at lower centre over the titles DIRECTOR, GERENTE, and MINISTRO DE HACIENDA, with the date 'TEGUCIGALPA, 5 DE MARZO DE 1941' printed below the serial fields. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely engraved in green. A large central vignette presents a frontal intaglio portrait of a longhorn bull's head, rendered with fine line-engraved detail, flanked symmetrically by guilloche-bordered numeral '10' counters at left and right within scalloped frames. Repeating micro-numeral '10' border strips run horizontally above and below the central vignette, with the issuer name in a decorative panel at top and denomination in a cartouche at the foot. |
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The Banco de Honduras — not to be confused with the later Banco Central de Honduras, which absorbed its functions in 1950 — issued this series during a period when the country's currency system was still managed by a private commercial institution rather than a central bank. The American Bank Note Company's involvement was typical for Central American issuers of the period who lacked domestic printing infrastructure and needed notes that would resist counterfeiting in low-volume, agrarian economies.
P#43 is among the scarcer denominations of this issuer's final decade of operation. The 1941 dating places it squarely in wartime, though Honduras's direct economic disruption from the conflict was limited compared to its export dependency on the United Fruit Company's banana trade, which had already been hammered by Panama disease throughout the 1930s.