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10 Centavos
| Issuer | El Salvador |
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| Year | 1921-1973 |
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| In circulation to | 1 January 2001 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1921 - San Francisco Mint - 2,000,000 1925 - San Francisco Mint - 2,000,000 1940 - Philadelphia Mint - 500,000 1951 - San Francisco Mint - 1,000,000 1967 - Denver Mint - 2,000,000 1968 - Denver Mint - 3,000,000 1969 - Denver Mint - 3,000,000 1972 (1973) - San Francisco Mint; Minted in 1973 - 7,000,000 |
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El Salvador's monetary system through much of this period was structurally tied to the colón, introduced in 1919 to replace the peso at par following years of coffee-export instability. The Banco Agrícola Comercial, later supplanted by the Banco Central de Reserva established in 1934, managed coinage policy through decades of agricultural monoculture dependence and periodic fiscal stress. This 10 centavos type ran across that entire institutional transition without a redesign — a striking degree of continuity for a nation that changed governments by force on multiple occasions during the same span.