El Salvador 1953 25 centavos

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This twenty-five centavos was minted at San Francisco for El Salvador in 1953. The obverse features José Matias Delgado (1767-1833), a priest who led the independence movement.

Recorded mintage: 14,000,000.

Specification: 2.5 g, 0.900 fine silver, 18 mm diameter, designed by Gilroy Roberts.

Catalog reference: KM 137.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

Link to:

• 1952 centavo
• 1953 50 centavos
• 1956 centavo
• Coins and currency dated 1953
• return to El Salvador
• Wikipedia article on Delgado: [1]