It is issued by the Central Bank of Honduras: under article 5 of the Monetary Law the bank is the sole issuer of legal-tender coins and banknotes in the country, and the notes and coins it issues have legal force and unlimited paying power. The bank lists this denomination among the notes in current circulation. The paper is one hundred per cent cotton fibre in all denominations; the bank also notes that one issue of the twenty-lempira note was made on a polymer substrate.

The face shows the portrait of Dr Juan Manuel Gálvez, President of Honduras. The back shows the new building of the Central Bank of Honduras. A note of the lempira, the currency of Honduras, named after the indigenous chief. The most interesting security features are a watermark, which the bank names on the 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 lempiras; silk fibrils scattered over the whole surface of the note, visible in several colours and fluorescent under ultraviolet light. On notes dated 7 April 2022 the fibrils show only under ultraviolet, in red, blue and yellow; and a security thread set vertically into the paper, with clear and microprinted text; it fluoresces only under ultraviolet light.

The lempira carries almost the whole history of the country on its notes at once: the chief who resisted the conquest and the presidents who built the republic. For a collection it makes an even run of a single size in which each denomination is known by its colour and its portrait. UNC condition means the note has never circulated: no folds, no wear, no soiling, even corners — just as it left the press.

Banknotes from the VPcoins catalogue are collected by seasoned collectors and newcomers alike.