Catalog
1 Colón
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador |
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| Year | 1944-1951 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company, United States |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green on multicolor underprint. Central vignette shows a farmer guiding a team of oxen pulling a plow, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. Guilloche patterns fill the borders, with the denomination numeral repeated in each corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DE EL SALVADOR 1 PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR UN COLÓN DE ACUERDO CON EL ARTÍCULO 39 DE SU LEY CONSTITUTIVA SAN SALVADOR, 6 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1949. (Translation: Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador / Pay to Bearer One Colon in accordance with Article 39 of its Constitutional Law / San Salvador, September 6, 1949.) |
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The Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador was established in 1934 under pressure from a U.S. financial mission dispatched after the colón's repeated instability during the Great Depression. ABNC handled Salvadoran notes through much of the mid-century, producing plates in New York that were shipped south for issue — a common arrangement for Central American central banks that lacked domestic printing infrastructure.
The P#83 series spans nearly a decade, suggesting reorders from the same ABNC plates rather than a redesigned issue. Plate reuse at this scale occasionally produced minor variation in ink density and serial numbering across print runs.