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20 Pesos Plata
| Issuer | Banco Atlántida |
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| Year | 1913 |
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| Value | 20 Pesos Plata |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red-brown on white cotton paper, the reverse is dominated by a symmetrical guilloche design with four large rosette medallions flanking a central oval vignette enclosing the Honduran coat of arms. The denomination '20' appears in each corner and flanking the central oval, with 'VEINTE PESOS PLATA' inscribed above the central vignette. 'BANCO ATLANTIDA' is lettered in bold serif type across the lower panel, with the printer's imprint 'AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK' at the base. |
| Reverse lettering | VEINTE PESOS PLATA BANCO ATLANTIDA AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
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Banco Atlántida was a Honduran commercial bank granted note-issuing privileges during the early twentieth century, when Honduras had no central bank and private institutions filled the gap. The American Bank Note Company handled the printing, as it did for the overwhelming majority of Latin American private bank issues of the period — the New York shop was essentially the default choice for any issuer wanting internationally credible engraved notes.
Pick 115 is among the scarcer denominations from this issuer. Higher-value private bank notes in Central America rarely circulated widely; they moved between merchants and houses of commerce rather than through ordinary hands, which means surviving examples tend to show either very light use or heavy handling — almost nothing in between.