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2 Reales Provisional coinage
| Issuer | El Salvador |
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| Year | 1829 |
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| Currency | Real (1828-1889) |
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| Obverse lettering | MONEDA PROVISIONAL • R • L • 1829 (Translation: Provisional coin) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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El Salvador's provisional coinage of 1829 predates the country's formal monetary independence and was struck under considerable political instability — the Central American Federation was fracturing, and local authorities were improvising monetary supply to fill the gap left by collapsing Spanish colonial infrastructure. The "provisional" designation was not ceremonial; these coins were genuinely stopgap issues, authorized locally while the federation's central apparatus was losing coherence.
KM#6 is scarce in any grade. Surviving examples are rarely encountered outside major auction appearances, and many known specimens show heavy circulation consistent with a small issue pressed into hard daily use.