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El Salvador banknotes
El Salvador paper money catalog and Salvadoran currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Spanish currency, till 1823
  • Escudo = 2 Pesos = 16 Reales, till 1823
  • Central American Republic Escudo = 16 Peso, 1823-1840
  • Salvadoran Peso = (8 Central American Republic Reales), 1840-1871
  • Salvadoran Peso = 100 Centavos, 1871-1919
  • Colon = (Peso) = 100 Centavos, 1919-2001
  • USA Dollar = (8.75 Colons) = 100 Cents, from 2001

• USA currency is used
  • USA, from 2001

• To purchase Salvadoran banknotes, please check our inventory :
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Pick #	Date
		Republic
1-8	1877	1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 500 pesos; Gobierno
9-18	1877	1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 pesos; Deuda Interior
75-80	1934-52	1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 colones
81-82	1938-54	1, 5 colones
83-86	1942-44	1, 5, 10, 100 colones
87-88	1950-54	1, 10 colones
90-92	1955-60	1, 2, 5 colones
93-98	1957-60	1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 100 colones
99	1959	10 colones
100-4	1962-66	1, 2, 5, 10, 25 colones
105-7	1964-65	1, 5, 100 colones
108-9	1967	1, 5 colones; commemorative issue "Jose Canas 1767-1997"
110-4	1968-70	1, 5, 10, 25, 100 colones
115-9	1971-76	1, 2, 5, 10, 25 colones
120-2	1974-79	1, 25, 100 colones
123-4	1976	1, 2 colones
125-32	1977-80	1, 5, 10, 10, 10, 25, 50, 100 colones
133	1980	100 colones
133A-7	1982-88	1, 5, 10, 25, 100 colones
138-40	1990-95	5, 100 colones
141-3	1995-96	10, 25, 50 colones
144-6	1996	10, 50, 100 colones
147-52	1997	5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 200 colones
153-8	1999	5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 200 colones

		EL SALVADORIAN PRIVATE BANKS
		- Banco Agricola Comercial
s101-5	189-	1, 5, 10, 25, 100 pesos
s106-7	1915	50, 100 pesos
s108-13	1922	1, 1, 2, 5, 10, 25 colones
		- Banco de Ahuachapm
s121-6	189-	1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 pesos
		- Banco de Centro America y Londres
s131-5	1895-7	1, 5, 10, 50, 100 pesos
s137	1905	5 pesos; provisional overprint "ORO"
		- Banco Industrial del Salvador
s141-5	189-	1, 5, 10, 25, 100 pesos
		- Banco Internacional del Salvador
s151-6	188-	1, 5, 10, 25, 100, 500 pesos
		- Banco Nacional del Salvador
s161-6	1906-8	1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 pesos
		- Banco Occidental
s171-81	189-1914	1, 1, 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 500 pesos
s191-9	1920-1929	1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 100, 500 colones
		- Banco Salvadoreo
s201-7	1899-1913	1, 1, 5, 10, 25, 100, 500 pesos
s208-9	1913-4	1, 5 pesos
s211-5	1920	1, 2, 5, 10, 25 colones
s221-6	1924	1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 100 colones