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2 Reales Provisional coinage
| Issuer | Republic of El Salvador |
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| Year | 1832-1834 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Central device features a volcano rising above horizontal lines representing the sea, all enclosed within a beaded inner circle. A radiant eight-pointed star appears above the volcano's apex, flanked on either side at mid-field by the mintmaster's initials 'S' within the inner circle. The surrounding legend reads 'POR LA LIVERTAD DEL SALV' separated by a dot and 'S S', running along the rim between the beaded border and the inner circle. The design is characteristic of the early Central American republican coinage tradition, rendered in a bold, rustic engraving style. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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El Salvador's provisional coinage of the early 1830s was struck during a period when the newly independent Central American Federation was fracturing, and individual states were scrambling to assert fiscal autonomy. El Salvador had no mint of its own, and these pieces were almost certainly produced using improvised or borrowed equipment, which accounts for the characteristically crude striking quality endemic to the type — not random weakness, but a known, consistent feature of the series.
KM#11 is scarce in any grade. Circulation in the region was heavy and unforgiving.