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5 Centavos Independence
| Issuer | Honduras |
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| Year | 1879-1880 |
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| Currency | Second Peso (decimalized, 1879-1931) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE HONDURAS 1871 (Translation: Republic of Honduras) |
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| Reverse lettering | DIOS UNION LIBERTAD. 5 C. 15 DE SET. 1821 0.900 (Translation: God, union and Liberty 5 Centavos 15th Sep 1821 0.900) |
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Honduras struck this small silver piece in the years immediately following the reorganization of its coinage system under President Marco Aurelio Soto, whose reformist government — backed heavily by Guatemalan and ultimately U.S. financial interests — pushed the country toward a modern decimal currency. The mint operated intermittently, and the two-year window of this issue reflects genuine production constraints rather than a planned short series.
KM#34 is scarce in any grade. Circulation in rural Honduras was brutal on small silver, and surviving examples with legible details are genuinely uncommon.