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2 Dollars Brown
| Issuer | Government of British Honduras |
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| Year | 1924-1928 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Brown intaglio print on white paper with red serial numbers. The colonial coat of arms of British Honduras is positioned at the top centre, flanked by the denomination numeral '2' on either side. The text panel carries the promise-to-pay legend and the date and place of issue in letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in brown, the reverse is dominated by an intricate lathe-work guilloche design of interlocking rosettes and scrollwork that fills the entire field. Two oval cartouches, one at left and one at right, bear the words 'BRITISH' and 'HONDURAS' respectively, set within fine engine-turned borders. |
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British Honduras maintained a separate currency administration well into the twentieth century, pegged to the U.S. dollar at a fixed rate of two Honduran dollars to one U.S. dollar — a relationship that shaped denominations and export transactions in this small timber and chicle economy for decades. De La Rue produced the plates for this series in London, with sheets shipped to Belize City for signing and issue by colonial treasury officials.
The 1924–1928 date span covers a period when chicle export revenues were near their peak, driven by American demand for chewing gum. Notes from the early part of this range circulated hard through merchant hands in Belize City and Dangriga.