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| 表面の説明 | The obverse is printed in black and blue on white paper, with the heading REPÚBLICA DE HONDURAS at the top and the bank title EL BANCO DE HONDURAS in large letters across the upper portion. A central intaglio vignette presents a bold portrait of a bull's head facing forward, flanked on each side by ornate guilloche rosettes bearing the numeral 50. The lower section carries the city of issue TEGUCIGALPA, the denomination CINCUENTA PESOS, the date 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 1913, and three signature lines for El Presidente, El Gerente, and El Ministro de Hacienda; this example is overprinted SPECIMEN with cancellation holes and bears zeroed serial numbers. |
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| 表面の銘文 | REPÚBLICA DE HONDURAS EL BANCO DE HONDURAS PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR EN MONEDA EFECTIVA 50 SERIE C TEGUCIGALPA CINCUENTA PESOS 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 1913 EL PRESIDENTE EL GERENTE EL MINISTRO DE HACIENDA SPECIMEN American Bank Note Co. New York |
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Banco de Honduras was a private commercial bank operating under government concession — not a central bank — and its note-issuing authority was always politically contested. By 1913, Honduras had already cycled through multiple failed currency reforms, and the country's chronic inability to service its foreign debt made foreign-printed paper money something of a hard sell to the public. The ABNC contract was a credibility move as much as a logistics one.
Pick 27 is among the higher denominations in this series and would have seen limited retail circulation. Fifty-peso notes in this period functioned largely as interbank instruments.