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10 Lempiras
| Issuer | Banco Central de Honduras |
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| Year | 1996-2008 |
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| Currency | Lempira (1931-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DE HONDURAS, C.A. BANCO CENTRAL DE HONDURAS DIEZ LEMPIRAS CABAÑAS PRESIDENTE MINISTRO DE HACIENDA Y CRÉDITO PÚBLICO |
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| Protection description | José Trinidad Cabañas portrait visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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Thomas De La Rue printed this series for Honduras across a twelve-year window, an unusually long run for a denomination that saw heavy daily use. The Lempira is named after the sixteenth-century Lenca chieftain who resisted Spanish conquest — his death around 1537, likely through treachery during peace negotiations, made him a national martyr long before there was a nation to claim him.
Notes from the later end of this date range show noticeably accelerated wear on circulated examples, a known characteristic of the series attributed to high transaction volume in urban markets during Honduras's economic expansion of the early 2000s.