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1 Real Pattern strike
| Issuer | Honduras |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Currency | First Peso (1862-1869) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 REAL 1869 E |
| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
Honduras spent much of the 1860s in monetary disarray, relying heavily on foreign coins — particularly Central American federation issues and circulating Spanish colonial silver — to fill the gap left by an underdeveloped national mint infrastructure. The 1869 pattern series, of which this copper piece is one, was part of an effort to establish a workable domestic coinage before the country had the capacity to sustain regular production.
Copper was the trial medium of choice precisely because it was cheap to strike in small numbers. Whether this specific design ever advanced to a silver circulation proposal is not firmly documented in the surviving mint records.