1 Colón

El Salvador's colón had been pegged to the US dollar at 2.50 per dollar since 1934, a rate that held with remarkable rigidity through coups, civil war, and economic turbulence alike. By the time this stainless steel issue entered circulation in 1988, the country was deep into a civil conflict that would claim roughly 75,000 lives before the 1992 Chapultepec Peace Accords. The colón itself was abolished entirely in 2001 when El Salvador dollarized its economy under the Monetary Integration Law — making this series among the final coinage struck under the national currency.