Salvadoran colón
Salvadoran colón: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- SVC
- Ancestry branch
- Spanish real / peso
Where this money came from
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No successor is established here. This does not imply extinction.
The story
The official survey instructions identify the Monetary Integration Law, effective from January 2001, as setting 8.75 colones per US dollar. [1]
The Salvadoran peso was renamed colón in 1892 for official documents; monetary reform and naming do not create a separate currency identity. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador, Oficina Nacional de Estadística y Censos · Encuesta de hogares: R70514A, destination of cash assistance C598 ↗
- Edwin Francisco Gutiérrez Arce, Saúl Armando Jiménez Burgos, Gerardo Félix Quijano Quezada, Universidad Centroamericana, July 2013 · Análisis de la inversión extranjera directa en el sector financiero de El Salvador luego de los acuerdos de paz y su papel dinamizante en la economía; Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador · El Dinero en El Salvador (from ¿Qué es el Dinero?, 2000) C1203 ↗
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“Salvadoran colón.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000083.html