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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Centro-Americano |
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| Year | 1888 |
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| Reference(s) | P#134 |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRO-AMERICANO DIEZ PESOS REPUBLICA DE HONDURAS, TEGUCIGALPA Pagará al portador en moneda efectiva DIEZ El Director El Gerente El Mayor de Hacienda American Bank Note Co. New York |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue, the reverse is centred on a large guilloche rosette bearing the bank name BANCO CENTRO-AMERICANO within a circular frame, surrounded by dense lathe-work trellis patterns. The denomination DIEZ PESOS appears at centre right and the city name TEGUCIGALPA at centre left, each set within horizontal panels of intricate geometric guilloche. Large numerals 10 occupy both the left and right extremities within ornamental borders, with the imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK along the lower edge. |
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The Banco Centro-Americano was a short-lived private commercial bank operating in Central America during the late nineteenth century, and its notes are among the rarer products of the American Bank Note Company's extensive Latin American output from that period. ABNC held engraved plate designs for dozens of regional banks simultaneously, and it is common to find that vignette elements on these notes were recycled across multiple unrelated institutions — a cost-saving practice that makes attribution by imagery alone unreliable.
Pick 134 is seldom encountered. The bank's operational lifespan was brief, limiting both print runs and surviving circulation examples.