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1 Centavo
| Issuer | El Salvador |
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| Year | 1943-1973 |
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| Diameter | 16 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DE EL SALVADOR 1956 (Translation: Republic of El Salvador) |
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| Mintage | 1942 (1943) - Philadelphia Mint; Struck in 1943 - 5,000,000 1943 - San Francisco Mint - 5,000,000 1945 - Philadelphia Mint - 5,000,000 1947 - San Francisco Mint - 5,000,000 1951 - San Francisco Mint - 10,000,000 1952 (1953) - San Francisco Mint; Struck in 1953 - 10,000,000 1956 (1957) - San Francisco Mint; Struck in 1957 - 10,000,000 1966 - British Royal Mint - 5,000,000 1968 - Denver Mint - 5,000,000 1969 - Denver Mint - 5,000,000 1972 (1973) - San Francisco Mint; Struck in 1973 - 20,000,000 |
| Additional information |
El Salvador's centavo coinage of this period was struck almost entirely at the San Francisco Mint, a wartime and postwar arrangement common to many Latin American nations whose domestic minting infrastructure was limited or nonexistent. The brass composition adopted in 1943 reflected wartime copper conservation priorities — a compromise that outlasted the war by three decades simply because no pressing reason emerged to change it.