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1 Centavo Essai
| Issuer | Dominican Republic (1844-date) |
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| Year | 1892 |
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| Currency | Peso (1844-1905) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Dominican Republic's 1892 aluminium essais were pattern pieces produced in Paris, almost certainly by the Monnaie de Paris, as part of a broader evaluation of coinage proposals that never advanced to circulation. Aluminium was attracting serious attention from several Latin American governments during this period as a cheap, lightweight alternative to bronze — the metal had dropped dramatically in price following the commercialization of the Hall-Héroult electrolytic process in 1886. Nothing came of it here.