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10 Lempiras
| Issuer | Banco Central de Honduras |
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| Year | 1951-1954 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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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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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DE HONDURAS EL BANCO CENTRAL DE HONDURAS PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR A SU PRESENTACIÓN 10 DIEZ LEMPIRAS 31 DE AGOSTO DE 1951 CABAÑAS PRESIDENTE GERENTE MINISTRO DE HACIENDA WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED, LONDRES (Translation: Republic of Honduras The Central Bank of Honduras will pay the bearer on presentation 10 Ten lempiras 31 of August of 1951 Cabañas President Manager Minister of Finance Waterlow & Sons Limited, London) |
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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.