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20 Pesos Legitimist Campaign
| Issuer | Government of Honduras |
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| Year | 1903 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Grey letterpress on pink underprint; allegorical Justice vignette with scales at left, Honduran coat of arms at right, issuer legend at top, face value in numerals at both upper corners and in words at centre. Blue overprinted serial number at upper centre-left, two manuscript signature lines with titles below, authorization decree at upper left, designer and printer imprints at lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Nº 08724 20 CAMPAÑA LEGITIMISTA DE 1903 DECRETO No 52 DE 1° DE AGOSTO DE 1904 GOBIERNO DE HONDURAS REPca DE HONDURAS LIBRE SOBERANA INDEPENDIENTE 15 SEP. 1821 20 VEINTE PESOS Para sustituir las Constancias de Credito por perdidas habidas en la campaña Legitimista de 1903 EL CONTADOR MAYOR EL MINISTRO DE HACIENDA EL DIRECTOR GRAL. DE RENTAS Litografía Nacional H. Cano (Translation: Legitimate Campaign from 1903 Decree No. 52 from August 1st, 1904 Honduras Government Republic of Honduras, Free, Sovereign, Independent September 15th, 1821 To replace the Credit Certificates due to losses incurred during the Legitimate Campaign of 1903 The Chief Accountant, the Finance Minister, the General Director of Revenue National Lithography, H. Cano) |
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The "Legitimist Campaign" designation marks this note as emergency military finance rather than ordinary treasury issue — it was produced to fund the Honduran government's armed response to the 1903 Liberal revolt, one of the chronic factional conflicts that destabilized Central American republics throughout the early twentieth century. Printing domestically via Litografía Nacional, rather than contracting a foreign security printer, was a practical necessity given the urgency, and it shows.
Hipólito Cano's involvement is the one genuinely curious detail here. Local designers on lithographed emergency currency from this period are rarely documented by name, making this attribution uncommon for the region.