Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Ahuachapam |
|---|---|
| Year | 189_ |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | American Bank Note Company |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown intaglio with an elaborate guilloche border pattern surrounding the entire field. A central vignette displays the coat of arms of El Salvador flanked by two national flags, enclosed within a circular frame bearing the legend "BANCO DE AHUACHAPAM" and "10 DE SETIEMBRE 1889"; the numeral "5" appears in guilloche cartouches at left and right. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE AHUACHAPAM 10 DE SETIEMBRE 1889 SALVADOR AMERICA CENTRAL AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK 5 |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Banco de Ahuachapam was one of several Salvadoran regional banks chartered under the 1880 banking law, which briefly allowed private institutions to issue their own currency before the government progressively consolidated that privilege. The American Bank Note Company supplied most of these provincial issuers — the plates were expensive, and ABNC's engraved security printing was considered beyond local forgery capability, which was the entire point.
The "189_" dating convention indicates the year was completed by hand at issue, making precise dating of surviving examples dependent entirely on whatever ink survives in that field.