Currency history
Honduran lempira
Honduran lempira: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- HNL
- Ancestry branch
- Spanish real / peso
Its place in the family
All ancestors and descendants ↗Honduran lempira
This currencyChildren 0
No successor is established here.
Trace its ancestry backward
Honduran lempira
Honduran real / peso
Spanish real / peso de a ocho
Castilian maravedí / real de vellón accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
1 later contribution joined this currency. See those connections →
The story
The issuer dates creation of the lempira to 3 April 1926, but says it entered circulation in the 1930 s. [1]
Sources and evidence
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“Honduran lempira.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000077.html