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250 Colones IADB
| Issuer | El Salvador |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Value | 250 Colones (250 SVC) |
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| Reverse description | The central field displays a reproduction of the first coinage of the Central American Federation, depicting a sun rising over mountains within a wreath, evoking the iconography of the 1824 Federal Republic of Central America. The commemorative legend arcs around the upper periphery of the coin, with the founding date 1824 and the issue year 1977 flanking the inscription in the lower field, all contained within a beaded border. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Struck to commemorate the annual meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank held in El Salvador in 1977, this issue belongs to a wave of Central American commemorative gold coinage produced through the 1970s as regional governments sought hard-currency revenue from collector markets rather than domestic circulation. The IADB meeting that year drew particular attention given the bank's expanding role in financing infrastructure across the isthmus during a decade of significant political instability throughout the region.
Mintage was extremely limited, as was standard for Salvadoran commemorative gold of the period.