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1 Centavo Taino Artifact, Zinc
| Issuer | Dominican Republic (1844-date) |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Composition | Copper plated zinc |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | UN CENTAVO (Translation: One centavo) |
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The "Taino Artifact" centavo series was introduced in the 1980s as part of a broader Dominican recoinage that shifted away from the founding-era iconography the republic had used for decades. The copper-plated zinc composition adopted during this period was a cost-driven response to rising metal prices throughout Latin America — a problem that forced numerous Caribbean and Central American mints to abandon traditional bronze or brass flans entirely during the same decade.
KM#72 replaced the earlier KM#17 type that had circulated since the 1930s.