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1/4 Real Provisional coinage
| Issuer | El Salvador |
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| Year | 1828 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | S. S. 1828 (Translation: San Salvador) |
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El Salvador's first indigenous coinage emerged in the chaotic years following the dissolution of the Central American Federation, when newly independent states scrambled to establish monetary infrastructure practically from scratch. The 1828 provisional issue was authorized before the country had any functioning mint of its own, necessitating arrangements that were improvised at best.
KM#1 status means this is the founding piece of Salvadoran numismatics — the first cataloged coin of the republic. Surviving examples are genuinely scarce; provisional issues of this kind rarely circulated in quantities large enough to ensure attrition-based survival in collectible grades.