50 Centavos Pattern

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.