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50 Pesos
| Issuer | Tesorería General de Honduras |
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| Year | 1889 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note within an ornate guilloche border. The upper portion carries the legend VALE AL PORTADOR in bold letters, with the denomination CINCUENTA PESOS centred below. Serial number and series boxes appear at upper left and upper right respectively, flanking two denomination panels each reading $50. A manuscript date line reading Tegucigalpa, 1.° de Enero de 1889 is printed in the centre field, accompanied by two handwritten official signatures — one for El Ministro de Hacienda and one for El Director de Rentas — along with circular official seals of the República de Honduras. |
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| Reverse description | Unadorned typeset reverse with a fine guilloche border running the full perimeter. The issuing authority República de Honduras is set in script at the top, flanked by two corner denomination panels each reading $50. The central text BILLETE DEL TESORO appears in large bold letters, with VALE CINCUENTA PESOS in a secondary line below, and the year 1889 at foot centre. A large circular treasury seal is blind-stamped to the centre of the note. |
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The Tesorería General de Honduras — the national treasury, not a commercial bank — issued paper money directly during a period when Honduras lacked a functioning central bank. This was a common arrangement in Central America in the late nineteenth century, where treasury notes served as the principal circulating medium by government decree rather than through any banking infrastructure.
The 50 Pesos denomination was the highest in this series, and high-value treasury notes from small-circulation issuances like this rarely survived in quantity. Honduras's monetary system shifted repeatedly in the following decades, and redemption campaigns destroyed much of what had been issued.