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
Its place in the family
All ancestors and descendants ↗Salvadoran colón
This currencyChildren 0
No successor is established here.
Trace its ancestry backward
Salvadoran colón
Spanish real / peso de a ocho
Castilian maravedí / real de vellón accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
1 later contribution joined this currency. See those connections →
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