Catalog
2 Lempiras
| Issuer | Banco Central de Honduras |
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| Year | 1997-2010 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Isla del Tigre and the port town of Amapala rendered in intaglio, with the volcanic peak of Isla del Tigre dominating the right half of the composition and harbour waterfront buildings in the foreground. A large guilloche numeral '2' at left is set within an intricate lathe-work panel. Three Mayan glyphs appear in gold above the central vignette as a security underprint element. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE HONDURAS LEMPIRAS ISLA DEL TIGRE Y CIUDAD PUERTO DE AMAPALA EN DONDE INAUGURÓ SU GOBIERNO EL DR. SOTO FRANÇOIS-CHARLES OBERTHUR |
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The 2 Lempira denomination has had an awkward life in Honduras — useful in theory, rarely loved in practice, occupying the gap between the 1 and 5 Lempira notes in a monetary system where small coins absorbed most low-value transactions. This Pick 80 series ran for over a decade across two printers, De La Rue and Oberthur, a split-source arrangement the Banco Central used intermittently across several denominations to hedge against single-vendor dependency. Security provision is modest: watermark and thread only, with no more sophisticated features introduced during the note's production run.