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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Hondureño |
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| Year | 1889 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in rose-red on a plain paper ground, the reverse is composed of an elaborate engine-turned guilloche design with a large central medallion enclosing the denomination numeral 50 in white relief. The medallion is surrounded by symmetrical lathe-work rosettes and interlocking geometric panels that fill the entire field to the outer decorative border. The imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK appears along the lower margin in small letterpress type. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
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The Banco Nacional Hondureño was a short-lived institution, established under an 1889 concession and gone within a few years as Honduras cycled through competing private bank charters during the late nineteenth century. The American Bank Note Company printed the entire series in New York — standard practice for Central American issuers of the period who lacked domestic security printing infrastructure and needed the engraved intaglio work that ABNC could deliver.
P#153 is among the scarcer survivors from this issuer. The bank's brief operational window meant limited original production runs, and Honduras's tropical climate has not been kind to cotton-paper notes from this era.