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1/2 Peso
| Issuer | Dominican Republic (1844-date) |
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| Year | 1897 |
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| Value | 1/2 Peso |
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| Obverse description | Central device comprises the Dominican Republic coat of arms: a quartered shield bearing a Bible and cross, flanked by laurel and palm branches tied with a ribbon inscribed with the national motto DIOS PATRIA LIBERTAD in three separate scrolls. The shield is surrounded by the legend REPUBLICA DOMINICANA arcing along the upper periphery, with two five-pointed stars flanking the lower field. The weight specification 12 1/2 GRAMOS appears along the lower legend, with the Paris Mint mark A visible below the shield. The entire design is contained within a beaded inner border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Dominican Republic's billon coinage of the 1890s was a direct consequence of chronic fiscal instability — the state had defaulted on foreign debt and lacked the hard currency reserves to support a proper silver issue. The .350 fineness was a deliberate debasement, politically palatable because the coins retained a silver appearance in circulation despite containing more copper than silver by value.
KM#15 was struck in Paris, the Dominican Republic's preferred mint for most of its 19th-century coinage.