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1 Lempira
| Issuer | Banco Central de Honduras |
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| Year | 2008-2010 |
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| Currency | Lempira (1931-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE HONDURAS, C.A. BANCO CENTRAL DE HONDURAS UN LEMPIRA LEMPIRA 1 |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE HONDURAS RUINAS DE COPAN JUEGO DE PELOTA Y ESCALINATA UN LEMPIRA 1 |
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The P#89 series marked Honduras's transition toward a more security-conscious print run for the 1 Lempira denomination, though the note itself remained one of the lower-security issues in the Central American region at the time — watermark and embedded thread without the optical features appearing on higher denominations in the same family. The Banco Central had been gradually modernizing its currency program through the 2000s following persistent counterfeiting pressure on small-denomination notes, which circulate hardest and are replaced least often.
Cotton substrate on low-denomination, high-circulation notes like this tends to show heavy soiling quickly in the Honduran market. Uncirculated examples from this short window are less common than the print run might suggest.