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1 Centavo
| Issuer | El Salvador |
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| Year | 1915-1936 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DEL SALVADOR 1919 (Translation: Republic of El Salvador) |
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| Mintage | 1915 - Philadelphia Mint - 5,008,000 1919 - Philadelphia Mint - 1,000,000 1920 - Philadelphia Mint - 1,492,000 1925 - San Francisco Mint - 200,000 1926 - San Francisco Mint - 400,000 1928 S - San Francisco Mint; large `S` - 5,000,000 1928 s - San Francisco Mint; small `S` - 1936 - Philadelphia Mint - 2,500,000 |
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El Salvador's centavo coinage of this period was produced almost entirely by foreign mints — Birmingham's Heaton Mint struck the bulk of these issues, as the country maintained no domestic minting capacity. The KM#127 type spans a politically turbulent stretch that includes the 1932 Matanza, when General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez suppressed a peasant uprising with mass killings estimated in the tens of thousands, an event that reshaped Salvadoran governance for decades.
The copper-nickel alloy was a deliberate shift away from the pure copper centavos of earlier decades, chosen for durability in tropical circulation conditions.