Catalog
5 Udis
| Issuer | Red COMAL (Cooperativa Multisectorial de Ahorro y Crédito) |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Warm salmon and ochre tones dominate the face, with a central vignette of engraved orchid blossoms rendered in brown intaglio-style line work over a world-map underprint. A row of five oval globe vignettes runs along the lower margin, while a second orchid vignette appears at the right edge; the large numeral "5" and denomination text "UDIS" appear at upper right, with multilingual usage restrictions printed vertically along the right border. The signature of the Director Ejecutivo of Red COMAL appears at lower left above the alphanumeric serial number. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 UDIS CINCO UDIS Director Ejecutivo Red COMAL SOLO SE PUEDE GASTAR CON MIEMBROS SPENDABLE WITH MEMBERS ONLY NUR BEI MITGLIEDERN EINLÖSBAR À UTILISER UNIQUEMENT AVEC DES MEMBRES APENAS PODE SER GASTO COM MEMBROS (Translation: 5 UDIS (Solidarity Exchange Unit) UDIS = Unidad de Intercambio Solidario) |
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COMAL — the Coordinadora de Comercialización Alternativa — is a Honduran fair-trade network that developed its own internal scrip as part of a parallel local exchange system operating outside the formal banking sector. The Udi functions as a community currency unit, used among member cooperatives to facilitate trade without dependence on the lempira or external credit structures. These notes circulate within a defined network rather than the open economy, which makes their survival in collector hands a matter of chance rather than design.
No central print run data is publicly documented. Attribution to a Honduran printer is based on paper stock and typography consistent with regional commercial print houses.