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10 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Salvadoreño |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO SALVADOREÑO PAGARÁ A LA VISTA AL PORTADOR DIEZ COLONES EN MONEDA ACUÑADA DE ORO SAN SALVADOR 1° DE JUNIO DE 1920 Serie A AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown, with an elaborate symmetrical lathe-work design filling the entire field, incorporating intricate spider-web guilloche patterns radiating from a central oval medallion. The medallion contains a portrait bust of Christopher Columbus in profile facing left, enclosed within a circular frame bearing the bank name. Denomination numerals '10' appear at left and right within the geometric border. |
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Banco Salvadoreño was one of several private Salvadoran banks of issue operating before the government centralized currency production under the Banco Central de Reserva in 1934. The American Bank Note Company — the dominant commercial security printer in the Americas during this period — handled production for most of these private issuers, which means ABNC plates and design conventions are common across contemporaneous notes from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
What distinguishes this particular series is its brevity: Banco Salvadoreño lost its note-issuing privileges as part of the broader nationalization sweep, and the window during which these 10 Colones circulated was narrow. Survivors in any condition are scarcer than catalog frequency might suggest.