Catalog
10 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Currency | Colón (1892-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DE EL SALVADOR PAGARA EN EFECTIVO AL PORTADOR DIEZ COLONES (Translation: The Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador will pay in cash to the bearer Ten Colones) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DE EL SALVADOR CRISTOBAL COLON DIEZ COLONES (Translation: Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador Christopher Columbus Ten Colones) |
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The Canadian Bank Note Company held the contract for El Salvador's colón series through much of the latter half of the twentieth century, and this 1996 issue falls near the end of that long relationship — the country dollarized in 2001, after which the colón ceased to be issued entirely. Notes from the final years of the series circulated heavily and were not systematically retired; many simply wore out in a cash-dependent economy with limited banking penetration outside San Salvador.
Pick 144 runs through several date varieties, and the 1996 printing is among the more common of the late issues.