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Black intaglio print on olive guilloche underprint. An oval portrait vignette of Ignacio Agurcia occupies the left field, captioned with his name below. The centre carries an elaborate interlocking guilloche medallion with the large numeral 20, flanked by Series A designations; the date TEGUCIGALPA, 5 DE MARZO DE 1941 appears beneath. Three manuscript signatures with printed titles — Director, Gerente, and Ministro de Hacienda — run along the lower margin, with the printer's imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY below the design. |
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Black intaglio print on a fine guilloche border frame with denomination numerals 20 repeated in the side panels. A large central vignette occupies most of the design field, showing the head and shoulders of a longhorn bull facing slightly left. A red overprint authorization text appears across the centre of the note, and the printer's imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY is printed below the lower border. |
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The Banco de Honduras was not the central bank — it was a private commercial institution, one of several competing banks of issue operating in Honduras before the Banco Central de Honduras was established in 1950. Notes from this period circulated alongside those of rival private banks, and the 20 Lempiras denomination sat at the upper end of what ordinary Hondurans would handle in daily transactions.
ABNC held the printing contract through most of this era. The plates were produced in New York and shipped as finished notes, a common arrangement for Central American issuers who lacked domestic printing infrastructure capable of meeting security requirements.