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50 Centavos Aguan Navigation & Improvement Company
| Issuer | Aguan Navigation and Improvement Company |
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| Year | 1886 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 CINCUENTA THE AGUAN NAVIGATION and IMPROVEMENT COMPANY PAGARÁ Á J.G. ORD Ó AL PORTADOR CINCUENTA CENTAVOS á la vista en su oficina de Trujillo, Honduras Nº E34717 TESORERO PRESIDENTE THE HOMER LEE BANK NOTE CO.N.Y. BILLETE DE LA TESORERÍA POR CINCUENTA CENTAVOS (Translation: The Aguan Navigation and Improvement Company will pay to J. G. Ord or to bearer fifty Cents at sight, on its office from Trujillo, Honduras. Treasurer, President Treasury note for fifty Cents.) |
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| Reverse lettering | EMISIÓN AUTORIZADA AGUAN NAVIGATION AND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY UNITED STATES 50 CENTAVOS REPÚBLICA DE HONDURAS CINCUENTA Este billete será aceptado por su valor señalado en pago de toda deuda debida al AGUAN NAV- IGATION & IMPROVEMENT CO inclusivos el pago de pasa- jes y fletes por sus vapores y portazgos en el TRUJILLO & AGUAN CANAL y es pagadero en moneda de plata a su presentación en la oficina de la Compañía en Trujillo. LA FALSIFICACIÓN SERÁ CRÍMEN. CENTAVOS THE HOMER LEE BANK NOTE COMPANY NEW YORK EL 25 DE JUNIO DE 1886. (Translation: Authorized issue on June 25th., 1886. Aguan Navigation and Improvement Company. United States, Honduras. This note will be accepted for its stated value in payment of any debt owed to the Aguan Navigation and Improvement Co., including the payment of passenger fares and freight charges on its steamships and tolls in the Trujillo & Aguan Canal, and is payable in silver coin upon presentation at the company's office in Trujillo. Counterfeiting will be a crime.) |
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The Aguan Navigation and Improvement Company was an American-chartered concession operating along the Río Aguán in Honduras, granted rights to clear the river, build infrastructure, and collect tolls in the 1880s. Company scrip of this kind was a practical necessity in remote concession zones where Honduran government currency rarely circulated in adequate supply — workers and local traders had little choice but to accept it.
Homer Lee Bank Note Company held a relatively brief window of operation before being absorbed into American Bank Note Company in 1891, which gives this note a tight production window and a specific house style recognizable to specialists in the genre.