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1 Centavo Essai
| Issuer | Dominican Republic (1844-date) |
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| Year | 1892 |
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| Value | 1 Centavo (0.01) |
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| Reverse lettering | ESSAI DE MONNAIE 1892 |
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| Mintage | 1892 |
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The 1892 Dominican essai coinage was part of a broader effort to establish a modern national currency following decades of monetary instability — the republic had cycled through Spanish, Haitian, and improvised domestic currencies since independence in 1844. Aluminium was a fashionable experimental metal for trial pieces in the 1890s, its novelty value still high before industrial-scale production collapsed the price.
KM#E22 was never adopted for circulation. The centavo denomination would eventually be struck in bronze.