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2 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador |
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| Year | 1960 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DE EL SALVADOR 2 PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR DOS COLONES DE ACUERDO CON EL ARTÍCULO 39 DE SU LEY CONSTITUTIVA SAN SALVADOR, 9 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1960. (Translation: Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador / Will pay to bearer Two Colones in accordance with Article 39 of its Constitutive Law / San Salvador, November 9, 1960.) |
| Reverse description | Red-brown intaglio print on white paper. A circular portrait vignette at centre presents Christopher Columbus in left-facing profile, rendered with fine engraved detail against a solid tonal background. The field is framed by elaborate guilloche scrollwork with large stylised denomination numeral "2" repeated in each corner, and the bank title appears in bold letterpress along the upper border; the printer's imprint is set in small type at the foot of the note. |
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The Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador had relied on ABNC for its note production for decades by the time this series appeared, a relationship that gave Salvadoran currency a consistency of engraving quality unusual for a small Central American issuer. The 2 Colones denomination occupied an awkward middle position in everyday transactions — useful enough to print, but rarely the note people sought out or saved.
Pick 94 falls within a transitional period for the series, before the format revisions of the mid-1960s tightened the designs considerably.