Honduras 1956 10 centavos

from the Mountain Groan Collection

from the Acanthite collection

from the Acanthite collection

In 1931, the government of Honduras reformed the currency. The peso was dropped and the lempira adopted, with the exchange rate fixed at US$1 = two lempiras. A new series of coins were issued, a silver lempira, fifty centavos, twenty centavos and copper-nickel five and ten centavos (shown here). Bronze one and two centavos were added later. The new coins marked the first new issues since the early 1920's; all were minted outside the country and the old mint in Tegucigalpa closed for good. The 1956 is the last of three dates (1932, 1951, 1956) of the subtype.

Recorded mintage: 7,560,000.

Specification: 7 g, copper-nickel, 26 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM 76.1.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

Link to:

• 1951 50 centavos
• 1952 20 centavos
• 1954 centavo
• 1954 10 centavos
• 1967 10 centavos
• Coins and currency dated 1956
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