1 Real Provisional coinage

El Salvador's provisional coinage of the early 1830s was struck under the Central American Federation, a fragile political union that was already fracturing by the time these pieces entered circulation. Individual member states began issuing their own provisional coins as the Federal authority lost its grip — not out of monetary ambition, but out of sheer necessity to keep local commerce functioning.

KM#18 was produced at the Nueva Guatemala mint under contract. The Federation itself collapsed definitively in 1839, making this series among the last coinage issued under any pretense of Central American unity.