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5 Colones

Features

Issuer El Salvador
Issuing bank Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador (Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador)
Period Republic (1841-date)
Type Standard circulation banknotes
Years 1942-1951
Value 5 Colones (5 SVC)
Currency Colón (1892-date)
Composition Paper
Size 170 × 75 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
531967
References P# 84
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

Series: 1942-1954 "Printer ABNC" Issue

Obverse

Blue-gray on multicolor underprint.
José Matías Delgado and other heroes addressing the public in 1811 in San Salvador (Delgado, acompañado de otros próceres, arengando al pueblo), from painting “Primer Grito de Independencia” by Luis Vergara Ahumada.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DE EL SALVADOR
5
PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR
CINCO COLONES
DE ACUERDO COM EL ARTÍCULO 39 DE SU LEY CONSTITUTIVA
SAN SALVADOR, 2 DE MAYO DE 1951.

Translation:
Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador
Pay to Bearer
Five Colons
in according with article 39 of Constitutional Law
San Salvador, May 2, 1951.

Reverse

Green print.
Christopher Columbus at center.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DE EL SALVADOR
5

Translation: Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador

Signatures

M. Antonio Rodríguez (MAR) Director
Luis Alfaro Durán (LAD) President
R. Arturo Duke "1st type" (RAD") Cashier
Arturo F. Craik (AFC) Director

Printer

American Banknote Corporation (American Bank Note Company), United States (1795-date)

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Date Signatures VG F VF XF AU UNC
1942-Aug-11  MAR, LAD, RAD" Series C
1944-Jan-11  AFC, LAD, RAD" Series D
1949-Feb-01  MAR, LAD, RAD" Series F
1951-May-02  MAR, LAD, RAD" Series G

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