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1 Lempira Without vertical bar, black serial number
| Issuer | Banco Central de Honduras |
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| Year | 1980-1992 |
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| Size | 156 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | Red intaglio on multicolour underprint. The national Coat of Arms appears as a vignette at left, with a portrait of the indigenous chief Lempira at right. Black serial numbers of uniform numeral size are positioned at upper left and lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE HONDURAS, C. A. BANCO CENTRAL DE HONDURAS 29 DE MAYO DE 1980 1 UN LEMPIRA (Translation: Republic of Honduras, C.A. (Central America) Central Bank of Honduras May 29th., 1980 One Lempira) |
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Honduras introduced decimal currency in 1931, replacing the peso, and the lempira has been the national unit ever since — named after the sixteenth-century Lenca chieftain who resisted Spanish conquest. The 1 Lempira in this series ran across more than a decade of issue, with printing shared between the Canadian Bank Note Company and De La Rue, a split-production arrangement that accounts for subtle differences in plate quality and ink saturation between individual examples.
The "without vertical bar" distinction refers to a security element omitted from a subset of the print run — its absence is the diagnostic feature separating this Pick variant from closely related issues in the same period.