Catalog
50 Centavos Pattern
| Issuer | Central American Mint, San Salvador |
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| Year | 1892 |
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| Value | 50 Centavos (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DEL SALVADOR 900 C.A.M. 1892 (Translation: Republic of El Salvador) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 1892 date ties this piece directly to the wave of Columbus Quincentenary coinage produced across Latin America that year, though El Salvador's regular silver 50 centavos issue ultimately took a different path to production. Pattern coinage from the Central American Mint at San Salvador is poorly documented in the standard references, and KM#Pn14 accounts for almost nothing beyond the bare attribution — which itself suggests very few examples were examined when the type was cataloged.
Copper at this weight was almost certainly a die trial rather than a serious denomination proposal.