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1 Real
| Issuer | Republic of Honduras |
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| Year | 1869-1870 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents the denomination and date within an open wreath of laurel and olive branches, tied at the base with a ribbon bow. The numeral 1 appears at the top center of the wreath interior, followed below by the legend REAL and the date 1870, all in bold, well-spaced lettering. The field surrounding the wreath is plain, bounded by a toothed inner border and a beaded outer rim consistent with the obverse. The mint mark A, denoting the Monnaie de Paris, appears to the right of the date. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Honduras adopted nickel brass for this issue at a moment when most Latin American republics were still committed to silver coinage — a pragmatic concession to chronic silver shortages that plagued Central American mints throughout the 1860s. The Tegucigalpa mint had neither the consistent silver supply nor the institutional stability to maintain a reliable silver fractional coinage, and this alloy offered a workable substitute.
The series ran only two years before being discontinued, leaving KM#33 among the shorter-lived Honduran issues of the nineteenth century.