Catalog
20 Lempiras
| Issuer | Banco Central de Honduras |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Currency | Lempira (1931-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE HONDURAS C.A. BANCO CENTRAL DE HONDURAS VEINTE LEMPIRAS (Translation: Republic of Honduras C.A. Central Bank of Honduras Twenty Lempiras) |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Thomas De La Rue had produced Honduran banknotes for decades by the time this 2006 issue appeared, and the relationship shows in the execution — the firm's intaglio work on the series is among the more technically accomplished in Central American circulation currency of that period. The P#93 series runs across several denominations and represents a gradual tightening of security specifications as counterfeiting pressure on the lempira increased through the early 2000s.
The embedded security thread and watermark combination was unremarkable for the period but sufficient for Honduras's domestic cash economy, where high-denomination fraud was the primary concern rather than attacks on the 20-lempira face value.