5 Centavos

Honduras struck its first decimal coinage in 1879 following the monetary reform that replaced the real system, aligning the country with the broader Latin American push toward decimalization that had been accelerating since the 1860s. Production was contracted to foreign mints — this issue was struck at the Heaton Mint in Birmingham. The Heaton facility handled an outsized share of Latin American coinage during this period precisely because domestic minting infrastructure across Central America remained underdeveloped.

KM#43 had a short run. By the early 1880s the series was already being revised.