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1 Peso Pattern strike
| Issuer | Casa Nacional de la Moneda, Tegucigalpa |
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| Year | 1862 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Honduras established its Casa Nacional de la Moneda in Tegucigalpa in 1825, but the mint struggled chronically with equipment, skilled labor, and consistent metal supply throughout the nineteenth century. Pattern strikes of this period were often produced to test proposed coinage before submitting designs for government approval — or to demonstrate minting capability to skeptical officials. Whether this piece was intended as a formal submission or an internal proof of capacity is unclear from surviving records.
The silver-plated bronze construction points to a cost-saving measure during trial production, when committing full silver blanks to experimental dies was considered wasteful.