Catalog
5 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador |
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| Year | 1962-1963 |
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| Value | 5 Colones (5 SVC) |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DE EL SALVADOR PAGARA AL PORTADOR CINCO COLONES (Translation: The Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador will pay the bearer Five Colones) |
| Reverse description | Green intaglio print with intricate guilloche border ornaments and large numeral "5" vignettes at left and right. At center, an intaglio portrait bust of Christopher Columbus within a circular guilloche frame, captioned "CRISTOBAL COLON" below. A circular black seal of the Superintendencia de Bancos e Instituciones Financieras appears at upper left, and the date "San Salvador, 26 de Diciembre de 1962" is printed along the lower center. Printer's imprint of Thomas De La Rue & Company, Limited appears at the bottom margin. |
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Thomas De La Rue printed this series for El Salvador during a period of relative monetary stability under the Central Reserve Bank, which had been reorganized in 1934 following the collapse of coffee prices and the social upheaval of 1932 — a connection the institution was still quietly distancing itself from three decades later.
The P#102 series is notoriously short-dated. Issues appear confined to a narrow two-year window before the denomination's design was revised, making date-specific examples less interchangeable than collectors sometimes assume.