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2 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Salvadoreño |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO SALVADOREÑO Pagará a la vista al portador DOS COLONES SAN SALVADOR, 1° DE JUNIO DE 1920 SERIE A ADMINISTRADOR DIRECTOR AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
| Reverse description | Printed in brown on cotton paper, the reverse centres on a large guilloche medallion bearing the numeral '2', flanked by circular vignette panels containing allegorical figures. An intricate lathe-work border frames the entire composition, with the bank name and country name lettered across the central field. |
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Banco Salvadoreño was one of several private commercial banks in El Salvador authorized to issue their own currency before the government consolidated note-issuing authority under the Banco Central de Reserva in 1934. The American Bank Note Company handled a significant portion of Latin American private bank printing during this period, and the quality of the intaglio work on these Salvadoran issues is characteristically sharp.
P#S173 carries the "S" prefix in the Pick catalog, indicating a private or semi-official issuer — not a central bank note. By 1920, the writing was already on the wall for El Salvador's multi-bank currency system, making late-date examples from institutions like Banco Salvadoreño progressively harder to attribute to specific circulation windows.