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2 Reales Provisional coinage
| Issuer | El Salvador |
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| Year | 1829 |
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| Currency | Real (1828-1889) |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting a small smoking volcano rising above waves, all contained within a beaded inner circle. The volcano emits a stylized plume of smoke from its summit. A peripheral legend encircles the design along the rim, with the date appearing at the bottom of the legend. The overall composition is characteristic of the provisional coinage issues of early Central American republics. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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El Salvador's provisional coinage of 1829 predates the country's formal monetary independence and was struck under considerable political instability — the Central American Federation was fracturing, and local authorities were improvising monetary supply to fill the gap left by collapsing Spanish colonial infrastructure. The "provisional" designation was not ceremonial; these coins were genuinely stopgap issues, authorized locally while the federation's central apparatus was losing coherence.
KM#6 is scarce in any grade. Surviving examples are rarely encountered outside major auction appearances, and many known specimens show heavy circulation consistent with a small issue pressed into hard daily use.