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Country: Honduras, Republic Of Honduras
Capital: Tegucigalpa
Currency: Lempira
Numeric code: 340
Letter code: HNL
On a strip of land connecting North and South America is called Central America, the 112 thousand square kilometers belong to the Republic of Honduras. On a (not too large territories) can fit almost eight and a half million people. The capital of the Republic and the largest city is Tegucigalpa.
Until 1926 the use of Honduran peso. It was minted from silver, which automatically raises the value of the coins of Honduras. Added to the venerable age of banknotes. It would be fair to say that buy coins Honduras in those years, of course, possible, but it's pretty expensive.
Subsequently replaced the peso came Lempira, as well make a hundred centavos. Honor to give the name of the new money received by a local chief, in the XIV century who fought against colonization of the country. His profile to this day adorns the denominations of 50 and 20 centavos. From silver in the coinage at first refused. And the first editions of lempiras years 1931-1937 was silver 1 lempira 5, 20, 50 centavos. From 1932 to 1939, gradually, were introduced in circulation 10, 1, and 2 centavos. 1 lempira was last minted in 1937.
To reduce the production cost of coins Honduras silver finally left the composition of the coins in 1967. 1 and 2 centavos were not produced already, 5 centavos, too, are on the verge of extinction. We can say that in the catalogue of the coins of Honduras, the place it remains only for 10, 20 and 50 centavos.
