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10 Lempiras
| Issuer | Banco Central de Honduras |
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| Year | 1951-1954 |
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| Currency | Lempira (1931-date) |
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| Obverse description | Orange-brown intaglio print on multicolour underprint. A portrait vignette of President José Trinidad Cabañas is positioned at left, the denomination numeral and text at centre, and the national coat of arms at right. The date of issue appears in a horizontal line across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Orange-brown print with a central vignette illustrating a coffee and banana harvest scene. The denomination numeral is repeated within guilloche panels at both the left and right margins. |
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Waterlow & Sons had been printing Honduran currency for decades by the time this series was produced, a relationship that stretched back to earlier Banco Central issues and was common among British-printed Latin American notes of the period. The 1950s were a stretch of relative monetary stability in Honduras under successive military-backed governments, and this note entered circulation without any of the emergency pressures that tend to make issues from the region historically interesting.
Waterlow's liquidation and absorption into De La Rue came in 1961, so this issue falls within the printer's final decade of independent operation.