2 Pesos

The Estado de Honduras issues of the 1860s were among the earliest paper currency attempts in Central America, produced at a time when the country had no domestic printing infrastructure capable of banknote work. Madrid was the logical choice — not through any banking relationship, but through the remnants of colonial administrative ties that made Spanish printers familiar with the required authoritative typography and official formats.

The wax seal as the primary security feature tells you something about the limitations of the issue: this was authentication by physical intervention, each note individually sealed, almost certainly by a government official at point of distribution. Forgery deterrence relied on bureaucratic process rather than intaglio or watermark technology.

P#6B implies a variant within the 1862 series — likely a signature or seal color difference from 6A, though documentation on these distinctions remains thin in most major references.