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1 Lempira Customs Note
| Issuer | República de Honduras |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company, United States |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Nº 042303 SERIE L OBLIGACIÓN DEL ESTADO EMISIÓN DE 1937 REPÚBLICA DE HONDURAS BILLETE ADUANERO EL ESTADO GARANTIZA LA ACEPTACIÓN DE ESTE BILLETE POR SU VALOR NOMINAL EN LAS OFICINAS DE HACIENDA DE LA REPÚBLICA, ASÍ: EN PAGO DEL 8% DE LOS DERECHOS DE IMPORTACIÓN, MIENTRAS HAYA BILLETES DE LA EMISIÓN DE 1928 EN PAGO DEL 10% DE LOS MISMOS DERECHOS DESPUES DE HABERSE AGOTADO DICHA EMISIÓN DE 1928. EN PAGO TOTAL DE CRÉDITOS A FAVOR DEL ESTADO, ANTERIORES AL 31 DE JULIO DE 1920. DECRETO LEGISLATIVO N° 72 DE MARZO DE 1937 HONDURAS 1 UN LEMPIRA 1 REG Nº 043802 MINISTRO DE HACIENDA Nº 043002 REG Nº CONTADOR MAYOR 053312 DIRECTOR DE RENTAS AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY (Translation: State's obligation Issue from 1937 Republic of Honduras Custom note The State guarantees the acceptance of this note, for its face value in the Republic's Finance offices, as follows: For payment of 8% on importation fees while be available notes from 1928 issue, For payment of 10% of same fees, after exhausted the 1928 issue, Full payment of States credits previous to July 31st., 1920. Legislative Decree # 72, from March, 1937 Honduras One Lempira Main Accountant, Ministry of Finance, Renueves Director. Registers # 043802, # 053312, 043002) |
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| Reverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DE HONDURAS BILLETE ADUANERO AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY (Translation: Republic of Honduras, Custom note) |
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Honduras issued a parallel series of "Customs Notes" — Billetes de Aduana — specifically to settle import duty obligations, a mechanism used by several Central American governments when hard currency was short and customs revenue needed to be mobilized quickly. These circulated through a narrower channel than ordinary banknotes: collected at ports and border posts, remitted to the Treasury, and theoretically retired rather than recirculated. In practice, some inevitably leaked into general commerce.
ABNC printed the series from New York under contract during a period when the company held most of Central America's government security printing business. The 1937 date places this note under the Carias Andino dictatorship, which ran uninterrupted from 1933 to 1949.