Catalog
50 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Hondureño |
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| Year | 1889 |
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| Value | 50 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black intaglio over an orange guilloche underprint. At left, an oval portrait vignette of a uniformed military figure faces right; at center, an allegorical female figure reclines in a classical vignette with a lyre. The denomination "50" appears in a decorative panel at right, with the date TECUCIGALPA. 1889. at lower center and a notice panel advising the note will be accepted as legal tender at all Treasury offices of the Republic. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO Nacional Hondureño Pagará CINCUENTA PESOS al portador a la en Moneda Corriente TECUCIGALPA. 1889. ESTE BILLETE SERÁ RECIBIDO COMO DINERO EFECTIVO EN TODAS LAS OFICINAS DE HACIENDA DE LA REPÚBLICA. CINCUENTA PRESIDENTE GERENTE CINCUENTA PESOS | CINCUENTA PESOS | American Bank Note Co. New York |
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The Banco Nacional Hondureño was a short-lived institution — chartered in the late 1880s during Honduras's brief experiment with private note-issuing banks, it collapsed well before the country consolidated its currency system under state control in the early twentieth century. This 50 Pesos denomination sits at the top of that bank's issued range, and high-denomination notes from failed Honduran private banks rarely survived in any quantity; they were either redeemed at a discount during the bank's wind-down or simply discarded.
American Bank Note Company handled the printing, as they did for most of Central America's banking paper in this period — their New York production is consistent with ABNC's dominant regional contracts of the 1880s.