| Description de l’avers |
Black intaglio print on light paper with a central guilloche medallion enclosing the numeral '1'. To the left, a vignette of a coffee plant in full foliage; to the right, a landscape vignette of a coastal or lakeside scene with hills in the background. The bank title 'EL BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DE EL SALVADOR' runs along the top, with serial numbers and series letter 'K' at upper left and right. A central text panel reads 'PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR UN COLÓN DE ACUERDO CON EL ARTÍCULO 29 DE SU LEY CONSTITUTIVA', with the date 'SAN SALVADOR 10 DE ENERO DE 1950' at lower right. Three facsimile signatures appear along the bottom margin. |
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| Description du revers |
Red-orange intaglio print with a central portrait vignette of Christopher Columbus in three-quarter view, set within an ornate oval frame with fine guilloche surround. The bank title 'BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DE EL SALVADOR' is printed at the top, with the denomination 'UN COLÓN' along the lower margin. The numeral '1' appears at left and right in decorative cartouches. A circular control stamp of the 'Junta de Vig. de Bancos Y.S.A.' is visible at left, along with a manuscript date 'San Salvador, Abril 18 de 1951'. |
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The Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador had maintained a relationship with the American Bank Note Company going back decades by the time this series was authorized, and the early 1950s issues reflect the ABNC's house style at its most refined — steel-engraved intaglio work of a quality that El Salvador's own printing infrastructure could not have approached. The Colón itself had been the national currency unit since 1919, named for Christopher Columbus and pegged to the U.S. dollar at 2.50 colones per dollar, a rate that held with remarkable stability through this entire period.
Pick #87 spans a four-year window, and date-specific examples from 1950 versus 1954 carry meaningfully different scarcity profiles — worth confirming before cataloging individually.