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20 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Honduras |
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| Year | 1913 |
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| Currency | Peso (1862-1931) |
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| Obverse description | Dark green and black note with a large vignette of a longhorn bull's head occupying the right portion of the face, set against a fine guilloche underprint. The centre carries an ornate numeral '20' within an intricate lathe-work oval, flanked by the denomination text 'VEINTE PESOS' in bold letterpress below. The issuer's title 'EL BANCO DE HONDURAS' appears in large letters across the top, with 'REPÚBLICA DE HONDURAS' in a banner above, and the place and date of issue 'TEGUCIGALPA, 1° DE OCTUBRE DE 1913' printed beneath the bank name. |
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| Protection type | Guilloche underprint |
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Banco de Honduras was a private commercial bank operating under Honduran government concession, not a central bank — its notes circulated as the effective currency of the country during a period when Honduras had no central issuing authority. The American Bank Note Company handled the bulk of Central American private bank production in this period, often recycling plate elements across clients and denominations, which occasionally makes attribution across series more complicated than the catalog numbers suggest.
Pick 26 is scarce in any grade. The political instability of Honduras during the 1910s — coups, foreign debt crises, and United Fruit Company influence over the national economy — disrupted normal banking operations and left many issues with short, chaotic circulation histories.