El Salvador 1889-H 3 centavos

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This type was struck at the Heaton mint in 1889 for El Salvador as part of the introduction of decimal coinage to that unhappy land. Prior to the Heaton mint one centavos of 1889, El Salvador used various foreign (mostly Guatemalan) and countermarked coins. This type is accompanied by a copper-nickel centavo (KM 106).

Recorded mintage: 333,000 plus proofs.

Specification: copper-nickel, 3.3 g.

Catalog reference: KM 107.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Stickney, Brian, A Monetary History of Central America, New York: American Numismatic Society, 2017.

Link to:

• 1889-H centavo
• 1892 5 centavos
• 1892 centavo
• Coins and currency dated 1889
• return to coins of El Salvador