1 Real Provisional coinage

El Salvador's provisional coinage of the early 1830s was struck under considerable political instability — the country had only separated from the Federal Republic of Central America in everything but name, and local monetary infrastructure was virtually nonexistent. These provisionals filled an urgent gap left by the collapse of colonial Spanish supply chains, with silver sourced domestically rather than routed through Mexico City or Lima.

KM#17 is among the scarcer of the Central American provisional types, with surviving examples frequently showing adjustment marks from the assayer's bench — a consequence of working outside established mint infrastructure.