10 Córdobas Port Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende's appearance on a Nicaraguan coin requires some unpacking. The Chilean president, overthrown and killed during Pinochet's 1973 coup, became an enduring symbol across Latin American left-wing governments — and Nicaragua's Sandinista administration has maintained that ideological solidarity explicitly. The port named in his honor on Nicaragua's Pacific coast was christened under the original Sandinista government in the 1980s, itself a deliberate act of political naming during a period of acute Cold War tension in Central America.

KM#154 places this among Nicaragua's modern commemorative silver program, which has grown substantially since the 2010s.