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5 Colones Olocuiltenses
| Issuer | Municipalidad de Olocuilta / Mercado Gastronómico de Olocuilta |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Reverse description | Polymer reverse with a full-field microprint underprint of repeated 'CINCO COLONES' text in green across the entire surface. A photographic vignette of a tall purple church bell tower occupies the left third. Large numeral '5' in gold appears at upper right, with a multicolour diamond holographic element below it. The denomination inscription runs along the lower right margin. |
| Reverse lettering | CINCO COLONES OLOCUILTENSES 5 |
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Olocuilta is a small Salvadoran municipality best known regionally for its pupusa de arroz, and this note was issued not by a financial institution but by the local market authority as a form of scrip redeemable within the Mercado Gastronómico. Municipal scrip on polymer substrate is genuinely unusual in Central America — the material choice implies a deliberate investment in longevity and counterfeit resistance that far exceeds what the face value would seem to justify.
The inclusion of a security thread on a local market token is the kind of decision that raises questions about the note's production origins. Polymer with embedded thread points to a specialist security printer, not a local print shop.