El Salvador - 5 Salvadoran Colones - P-134b - 1988 dated Foreign Paper Money

5 Colones, P-134b. Front and back shown. The colón served as the official currency of El Salvador from 1892 until its replacement by the U.S. dollar in 2001, a change that occurred during the administration of President Francisco Flores. The colón was divided into 100 centavos, and its ISO 4217 code was SVC. In Spanish, the plural form is "colones," and the currency was named in honor of Christopher Columbus, referred to as Cristóbal Colón in Spanish.